Used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, the earliest known hand-held wooden tools have been uncovered by ...
Archaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held ...
A newly excavated archaeological site in central China is reshaping long-held assumptions about early hominin behavior in ...
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.
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Recent discoveries of fossils have provided evidence suggesting intelligent tool use among pre-human species. This groundbreaking research has the potential to reshape our understanding of early ...
The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...
A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...
ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over ...