A team of archaeologists in China has uncovered a 2,246-year-old stone inscription on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The archaeological discovery sheds light on a previously unknown chapter of Chinese ...

Archaeologists have discovered ancient tools and bones in China that, once again, shake up the timeline of the human origin story. The items are more than two million years old, indicating that ...

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire. Ancient Chinese people developed their own writing system and several ...

A new Dartmouth-led study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has shown. Discovered during excavations carried out in 2014–15 and 2018–19, ...

The team points to stone tools unearthed in China’s Loess Plateau as evidence. At 2.12 million years old, the tools disprove theories that early humans didn’t leave Africa until about 1.8 ...

Excavations of an ancient Chinese city unearthed large carved stone murals, a bridge and thousands of other artifacts. Archaeologists announced their findings from four years of work at the ...

In China it has been hard to find evidence of Mode III tools until relatively late in the Palaeolithic period, approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years ago. That’s concurrent with when Mode IV ...

Ancient Tomb May Belong to Early Chinese King Published Oct 18, 2024 at 8:43 AM EDT Updated Oct 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM EDT By Sean Duke ...