For one Otago researcher, a decades-old archaeological project studying eleven tonnes of artefacts from Tiwai Point – ...

“Several projects have been undertaken by researchers since the 1968 excavations. These studies have indicated that Tiwai ...

First Nations architecture has utilised biogenic materials for millennia. Paul Memmott spotlights readily available bush ...

The logs and stone foundation were stored in fields ... They did not build these things perfectly,” working with hand tools, Lallemand said. Lallemand and his helpers had an advantage over ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins ...