A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard of wooden ...

Humans have been making and using wooden tools for over one million years, but since they decompose quickly, they rarely ...

The Lost National Treasure, a popular TV series inspired by real archaeological discoveries, took three years to produce. One ...

Researchers in China unveil the oldest complex wooden technology, pushing back the timeline for sophisticated tool use.

In central China, archaeologists have unearthed a 5,000-year-old royal tomb, potentially belonging to a prehistoric king. The ...

Archaeologists unearthed the settlement of the female-dominated Neolithic Dawenkou culture in the Shandong province of eastern China near the estuary of the Yellow River—considered the birthplace of ...

While the central burial mound of Emperor Qin Shi Huang remains sealed, the surrounding discoveries continue to redefine what ...

What archaeological discoveries are considered newsworthy by U.S. media outlets and audiences? A new analysis of "pop-science ...

Archaeologists discovered three 1,800-year-old tombs from ancient China. The design of the tombs resembles that of a residence, showing the importance of family, even during burial. While looters ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...