Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from northern Taiwan and steering southeast toward Okinawa. A modern ...

The Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,000 years ago ... "Our analysis on the boomerang found at the Obłazowa site has yielded groundbreaking insights into its age," the researchers wrote, positioning ...

The Isko rock art caves, nestled in the Barkagaon block of Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh district, have been formally declared a ‘Monument of National Importance’ by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) ...

The Theopetra Cave, located in the Thessaly region of Greece, is home to what many experts consider the oldest construction ever made by humans: a stone wall dating back roughly 23,000 years —about 16 ...

Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

While the distance of 140 miles isn’t mighty when compared to some of the voyages the Polynesians are known to have made, it ...

Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

Old Wooden Tools in East Asia Unveil New Details About Life of Hominins in Paleolithic Period New insights into ancient East ...

For those who believe they've made a similar discovery, Slade encourages contacting a local museum or archaeological society.

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists ...