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Stone tools uncover 140,000-year-old human history in the Mongolian Gobi

Combining techniques such as geoarchaeology, sedimentology, luminescence dating, and lithic analysis, they discovered that ...
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Chinese and Kenyan researchers find Stone Age ‘production line’ for tools in Rift Valley

A team of Chinese and Kenyan archaeologists have uncovered a Stone Age “production line” that used sophisticated techniques to produce “standardised” tools. The findings could fill in the gaps in our ...
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Ancient tools dating back 3 million years found—but here’s the shocking part

Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered Oldowan stone tools that push the technology’s origins back toward the 3-million-year mark, and they were found beside fossils from ...
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150,000-year-old stone tools reveal humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than thought

Ancient humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than we first thought, a new study finds. Before now, the earliest evidence of humans (Homo sapiens) living in rainforest environments dated ...
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Stone tool discovery in China shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic, like in Europe and Middle East

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans’ neighbors, new technologies meant ...
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Ancient stone tool technologies may be older than we once thought

A new study suggests that Oldowan and Acheulean stone tool technologies are likely to be tens of thousands of years older than previously thought. Oldowan and Acheulean are the two oldest-known stone ...
Nature

Stone tools suggest that hominins arrived on Indonesian island much earlier than thought

The discovery of stone tools dating to at least 1.04 million years ago at the Early Pleistocene site of Calio on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi indicates that early hominins made a major deep-sea ...
CNN

Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Stone tools ...
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Before the Stone Age: Were the first tools made from plants not rocks?

There are few things more irritating in everyday life than getting something stuck between your teeth. Thankfully, we can reach for a toothpick – and it seems our ancient ancestors did the same. In ...
Smithsonian Magazine

1.04-Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Found on Indonesian Island Offer Clues About Some of the Region’s Earliest Human Relatives

This stone tool found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, along with six others, suggest hominins were present on the island and making tools far earlier than thought. M. W. Moore, Screenshot via ...
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Stone tools cast new light on date of human migration

A STONE-AGE archaeological site in the Arabian peninsula has become the focus of a radical theory of how early humans made the long walk from their evolutionary homeland of Africa to become a globally ...