Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.

Archaeologists uncovered 15,800-year-old Ice Age artifacts in an ancient human shelter, including stone tools, animal bones, ...

Dating rewrites history: Calcite crystals in animal bones revealed Lingjing tools were made 146,000 years ago during a glacial period, not a warm climate phase. Creativity in hardship: Homo juluensis ...

A deer rib pulled from an ancient butchery site in central China carried an unexpected clue. Inside the bone, calcite ...

Scientists in China discovered that ancient humans were making surprisingly advanced stone tools during a harsh ice age ...

“The calcite crystals inside the bone acted like a natural clock, allowing us to refine the age of the site,” Zhao explained. Previously, researchers thought that the tools found in Lingjing were ...

Ice Age tools dating back 146,000 years, discovered in an ancient Chinese cave, reveal surprising human adaptations to a ...

In central China, scientists have spent over a decade excavating and studying an archaeological site where ancient humans ...

While Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived near each other and likely interacted, they usually preferred living in slightly different environments. A recent study suggests Homo sapiens survived Ice Age ...

Humans may have returned to Britain far earlier than scientists once believed — not long after the last ice sheet began ...

Sets of 12,000-year-old dice found in North America suggests that humans have been gambling since the last Ice Age. Robert Madden It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12,000-year-old Native American ...