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2.6 million-year-old stone tools reveal ancient human relatives were 'forward planning' 600,000 years earlier than thought

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.
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Ancient hominids made long road trips to collect stone for tools

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.
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African tools suggest early metallurgy

Exploring the captivating world of early African metallurgy unveils a treasure trove of information about Africa’s ...
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Stone Age Tools Unearthed Near Ancient City of Assos Rewrite Human Migration Into Europe

Stone Age tools found near the ancient Greek city of Assos, Turkey, reveal the Aegean once served as a land bridge for early ...
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Ancient humans went the extra mile (literally) for quality stone tools

Man's ancestors transported stones over long distances to craft tools 2.6 million years ago - 600,000 years earlier than previously thought. Stone tools unearthed in Kenya reveal that hominins ...
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Bones found in 8-meter-deep pit may ‘fundamentally change’ history of humans in Europe

When the cave was first excavated in the 1930s, only the tools were found and analyzed ... To distinguish between the two, the team was able to extract fragments of ancient DNA from the 13 human ...

Ancient burial site upends what we know about Stone Age women and children

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about ...