Archaeologists have uncovered 9,200-year-old evidence of early barley harvesting in Uzbekistan’s Toda Cave, challenging ...

Dunhuang’s ancient stone-powder art lives on as artisans preserve and innovate mural traditions rooted in Yellow River culture.

The workshop examined the bead-making traditions of Khambhat (Cambay), Gujarat, widely regarded as the world’s oldest centre for stone bead production.

Wang Yalin, a fourth-generation inheritor of the Dunhuang stone powder painting technique, reproduces the Feitian murals of ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a coastal route from East Asia during the last ice age to become North America's ...

Archaeologists in eastern Norway have made a remarkable discovery that illuminates the sophisticated craftsmanship of our Stone Age ancestors. During an excavation in Horten, where forest land will ...

An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the Near East took different approaches to toolmaking. In their comparative ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery in the Czech Republic has unveiled the personal toolkit of a Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived approximately 30,000 years ago. The collection of 29 stone tools, ...

Geoarchaeological research on site formation process, paleoenvironment, and human behaviors in the early Holocene of the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.Michalec et al. A groundbreaking new study reveals that ...

A bundle of stone tools recovered at the Milovice IV archaeological site. Credit: Martin Novák. Most of the time, the past survives as debris scattered across millennia—animal bones here, a broken ...

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a million years ago, leaving behind stone tools that reshape our understanding ...