Skip to contentNewsArchaeologyNeandertal-like tools found in China present a mysteryA type of tool pioneered by European Neandertals may have traveled a continent away Multipurpose stone tools such as this one, found at a 60,000- to 50,000-year-old Chinese site, closely resemble implements made by European and western Asian Neandertals.Hao LiBy Bruce Bower1 hour agoStone tools traditionally attributed to European and western Asian Neandertals have turned up nearly a continent away in southern China.Artifacts unearthed at a river valley site called Longtan include distinctive stone cutting and scraping implements and the rocks from which these items were struck. Until now, such items have been linked only to geographically distant Neandertals, says a team led by archaeologists Qi-Jun Ruan and Hao Li of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research in Beijing.Sign up for our newsletterWe summarize science breakthroughs every Thursday.