Archaeologists previously assumed that East Asia did not see considerable tool development during the Middle Paleolithic, but ...

The research team determined many of the tools were crafted in the style known as Quina, which is typically regarded as an archaeological signature of Neanderthals, a species of ancient human.

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. At such a critical ...

A surprising archaeological discovery in southwest China is shaking up what scientists thought they knew about ancient humans ...

The site yielded Quina scrapers and related stone tools that are connecting cultural dots between regions that had previously seemed isolated. The find occurred in an environment similar to that ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

New research from the University of Washington challenges that perception. Researchers discovered a complete Quina technological system—a method for making a set of tools—in the Longtan site ...