New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...
Humans first developed complex and information-dense writing around 3000 B.C., when the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) invented cuneiform scripts. But new research suggests the ...
A study led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan may change how we understand the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens at the time of their dispersal across Eurasia about 50,000 to 40 ...
A multidisciplinary study led by researchers from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has uncovered the first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic ...
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have analyzed the influence of the shape of Paleolithic tools on visual attention during handling in a study led ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The artifacts found at Longtan, southwest China, were as old as 60,000 years. Qijun Ruan New technologies today often involve ...
The increase in the productivity of stone tool cutting-edge (shown in white lines) did not occur before or at the beginning of Homo sapiens’ wide dispersals in Eurasia but subsequently occurred after ...