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Researchers: Early stone tool culture of Neanderthals and other humans lasted much longer than thought

Overlap between the two cultures for many thousands of years would make a lot of sense because the newer technologies may not have been self-evidently better. Many considerations of time, energy, and risk would need to be factored in.

Posted on March 3, 2021March 3, 2021 Author News Comments(4)
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Homo erectus from nearly 1.5 million years ago was “more behaviourally flexible” than thought

But why did we think they wouldn’t be? Isn’t there an underlying story here that is slowly being confuted (but no one wants to really discuss the history in those terms so everything must be treated as a big surprise)?

Posted on March 11, 2020March 11, 2020 Author News Comments(2)
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Human origins upended once again

We humans must have originated in some kind of a cement mixer, to judge from recent reports. Making stone tools (Oldowan technology) is believed to have started in East Africa 2.6 million years ago and spread from there. But archaeologists recently found stone tools and butchered animals on a high plateau in Algeria: The newly Read More…

Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018 Author News Comments(3)
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Complex stone tools from 160,000 to 170,000 years ago found in China

The Levallois method of making stone tools was used in India 172,000 years ago: Rather than chipping flakes off a stone to create a tool, Levallois techniques work on the stone so it is the flakes themselves that become the tools. This enables several tools to be made from a single stone. Until recently, it Read More…

Posted on November 19, 2018 Author News Comments(2)
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Stone tools found in Saudi Arabia from 300,000 years ago

At the time, Saudi Arabia was a grassy plain with many lakes: Archaeologist Patrick Roberts of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and his colleagues recently discovered a handful of stone tools in a sandy layer of soil beneath the dry traces of a shallow Pleistocene lake at Ti’s al Ghadah, Read More…

Posted on October 31, 2018October 31, 2018 Author News Comment(0)

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