Tools were once thought to have arisen out of Africa and Europe, then spread eastward. New findings challenge that assumption ...

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

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

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 ...

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

Our new discovery of Quina scrapers joins another recent find of a different kind of Middle Paleolithic technology in East Asia: Levallois tools from Guanyindong Cave in Guizhou Province in south ...

Our new discovery of Quina scrapers joins another recent find of a different kind of Middle Paleolithic technology in East Asia: Levallois tools from Guanyindong Cave in Guizhou Province in south ...

Quina scrapers are typically quite thick and asymmetrical ... looked at pollen grains from the Longtan excavations. He found that the Middle Paleolithic people of Longtan lived in a relatively open ...