Learn why drastic drops in temperature sent European hunter-gathers in search of a warmer place to live.

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

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

Archaeologists like me are interested in the Middle Paleolithic – a period spanning 250,000 to 30,000 years ago – because it includes the first appearance of our species, our arrival into many ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

Archeological evidence has indicated that early humans fabricated tools during the Middle Paleolithic period in Europe and Africa. East Asia, during that same time, was considered less advanced. A new ...

Scientists from the University of Washington have discovered Quina tools in China dating back 50,000 years. The Paleolithic ...