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 ...
Photo from ongoing excavations of the Ahmarian deposits in 1938. Credit: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 998-27-40/14628.1.30 A joint investigation by the universities ...
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Stone Tools Used For 300,000 Years Straight: Early Humans’ Tech Wasn’t Primitive — It Was Near Perfect
In A Nutshell Archaeologists discovered stone tools at three sites in Kenya spanning 300,000 years (2.75 to 2.44 million ...
In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of stone tools at Ain Boucherit, Algeria, dated to approximately 2.4 million years ago. The find shocked the world, as it predates many similar tools from ...
Before 2.75 million years ago, the Namorotukunan area featured lush wetlands with abundant palms and sedges, with mean annual precipitation reaching approximately 855 millimeters per year. However, ...
We may be witnessing the moment when our ancestors first defied a hostile world, using the same tools in the same place for nearly 300,000 years despite the chaos of shifting climates. Picture early ...
Imagine early humans meticulously crafting stone tools for nearly 300,000 years, all while contending with recurring wildfires, droughts, and dramatic environmental shifts. A study published in Nature ...
Sara Watson works for the FIeld Museum of Natural History and Indiana State University The Earth of the last Ice Age (about 26,000 to 19,000 years ago) was very different from today’s world. In the ...
Discover how sophisticated tool-making technology emerged in India earlier than thought, reshaping our understanding of human evolution. "If they were an independent innovation in Southeast India, why ...
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