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

The ability of the early toolmakers to select high-quality stone, produce sharp flakes, and return to familiar raw-material ...
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Archaeologists Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Bone Tools That Show Early Humans Were Unexpected Geniuses

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ...
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Scientists discover the earliest evidence of human fire-making dating back 400,000 years

A research team at the British Museum, led by Nick Ashton and Rob Davis, reports evidence that ancient humans could make and ...
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These bone tools from 1.5 million years ago rewrite the history of early human innovation

Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of systematic bone tool production by over a million years. Early humans ...
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Early humans made tools from bones 1 million years sooner than scientists thought

Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this week in Nature suggests early humans in eastern Africa were also using ...
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Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...
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Stone Age humans were picky about which rocks they used for making tools, study finds

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 early people ...