Artist’s reconstruction of Xigou tool-hafting. Image credit: Hulk Yuan, IVPP.

    China’s Xigou Site Yields Evidence of Advanced Stone Tool Technology

    Technological innovations in Africa and Western Europe in the later part of the Middle Pleistocene signal the behavioral complexity of hominin populations. Yet, at the same time, it has long been believed that hominin technologies in Eastern Asia lack signs of innovation and sophistication. Archaeologists have now uncovered evidence of technological innovations at the site…

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