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160,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Reveal Advanced Tool Making in East Asia

Learn how archaeologists dated stone tools from central China and what they reveal about when early humans in Asia began ...
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160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiens

Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...

Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.
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Ancient stone tools in China reveal an unexpectedly early start to human technology

Old beliefs about early human behavior in East Asia are being challenged by the discovery of a richly-layered archaeological ...
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Stone Age humans were picky about which rocks they used for making tools, study finds

WASHINGTON – Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Human Ancestors Were Making Bone Tools One Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...
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To Craft Early Tools, Ancient Human Relatives Transported Stones Over Long Distances 600,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...