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Sep. 20, 2022 —Archaeologists and primatologists have shown that stone tool using chimpanzees in West Africa have distinct and recognizable material ...
Mar. 10, 2023 —Researchers have discovered artefacts produced by old world monkeys in Thailand that resemble stone tools, which historically have been identified as intentionally made by early hominins. Until now, ...
Nov. 20, 2020 —Researchers reveal evidence of Middle Stone Age occupations of the West African coast. Ranging from 62 to 25 thousand years ago, the largest well-dated assemblages from the region clearly document ...
Mar. 1, 2021 —Research has discovered that one of the earliest stone tool cultures, known as the Acheulean, likely persisted for tens of thousands of years longer than previously ...
Aug. 16, 2022 —A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted the hardwood objects were used to shape the edges of stone tools used by Australian Indigenous communities. The research ...
May 4, 2023 —Stone tools recovered from near the Senegalese coast extend occupation of the region back to 150 thousand years ago and are comparable to those seen across Africa at this time, but uniquely persist ...
Dec. 7, 2022 —A new study analyzing stone tools from southern China provides the earliest evidence of rice harvesting, dating to as early as 10,000 years ago. The researchers identified two methods of harvesting ...
Sep. 21, 2021 —A study on stone tools from an outpost of the Roman Empire has found that for ancient bakers and millers, having the right tools was a matter of ...
Aug. 26, 2020 —The change from Middle Stone Age (MSA) to Later Stone Age (LSA) marks a major cultural change amongst our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but distinguishing between these two industrial complexes is not ...
Aug. 5, 2020 —A new article examines fluted projectile points from southern Arabia, detailing production methods and technical aspects that indicate differences in function from the technology of the Americas, ...