Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Analysis of ancient pollen grains from Longtan revealed the climate and environment would have been similar in southwestern China to that of Europe. However, the authors found no animal remains at ...

Over the past few decades, the two ancient Asian civilizations, each with modern global visions, have navigated a complex ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

In our study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of international collaborators and I describe our discovery in China of the first complete example of a ...

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 ...

Some 60,000-year-old wild Sichuan pepper seeds unearthed at the Mengxihe Site in Ziyang, Sichuan province, have helped shed light on Paleolithic human diets that included a spicy and numbing flavor.

How can we use the past to better navigate our future? What hidden indicators lie beneath the surface of lakes across the globe? And how can understanding these mysteries help society make smarter ...

Artifacts found at a river valley site called Longtan in southern China include distinctive stone cutting and scraping ...