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2.75-million-year-old stone tools may mark a turning point in human evolution

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 ...
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Stone tools in human evolution : behavioral differences among technological primates / John J. Shea, Anthropology Department, Stony Brook University

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 ...
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To Craft Early Tools, Ancient Human Relatives Transported Stones Over Long Distances 600,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...
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Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape

Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago. The selection of rock type depended on how easily the material could be ...