Researchers in China unveil the oldest complex wooden technology, pushing back the timeline for sophisticated tool use.

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

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A groundbreaking discovery in southwest China has revealed wooden tools that are believed to have been crafted by Denisovans ...

The 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments ...

"There's no question they were smart, they were intelligent, they were advanced," study author Prof Bo Li told IFLScience.

This rules out that it was an imitation of foreign technology. It also reinforces the idea that Neanderthals had advanced cognitive abilities, such as planning and creativity.

LONGTAN, CHINA—CNN reports that stone tools synonymous with Neanderthals were discovered at the Longtan site in southwest China's Yunnan Province—but no Neanderthal is thought to have ever ...

Even so, Golovanova and colleagues note in their paper that “the production technology of bone-tipped hunting weapons used by Neanderthals was in the nascent level in comparison to those used ...

The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.