Archaeology breakthrough as 60,000-year-old stone tools unearthed in China cause 'big upset' The discovery challenges our understanding of human evolution in East Asia – and could rewrite human history This type of stone tool system has never before been found in East Asia (Image: Ben Marwick et al. PNAS (2025) ) Archaeologists have unearthed stone tools in China that experts say have caused "big upset" to the way we think about East Asia during the Middle Stone Age. The tools, made by the Quina method, were previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, and had never been...