Discovery of 1.5-Million-Year-Old Bone Tools Rewrites Early Human History
The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to have emerged in cultures more ancient than our own genus Homo to strip ...
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Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them
A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.
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Early Pyrenean Neolithic groups applied species selection strategies to produce bone artifacts, reveals study
The study is one of the few so far to combine use-wear, archaeozoology and paleoproteomics in archaeological material and the first to do so in bone artifacts from the ancient Neolithic.
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Ishango bone: Tracing the roots of maths and an artifact’s link to the cosmos
The story of humanity’s pursuit of knowledge spans millennia, from the earliest grasp of mathematical principles to modern explorations of the cosmos. The Ishango Bone, a 20,000-year-old artifact ...