China Stone Tools Rewrite 160,000-Year Innovation Story
Ancient tools discovered in China prove our ancestors were master craftspeople 160,000 years ago, challenging the old story that innovation only happened in Africa and Europe. The find includes 2,600 sophisticated tools that show early humans in Asia were just as creative and skilled as anywhere else in the world.
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