Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Archaeologists have discovered stone tools in China that could rewrite our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Chimpanzees make use of cobbles to break nuts, but they do not modify them. Homo habilis was one of the earliest hominin species that intentionally modified cobbles to manufacture the crude, Mode ...

Darwin and his later followers were faced with a seeming paradox. They described evolution as a continuous, gradual change over time, but species are distinct from each other, suggesting that some ...