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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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Who were the mystery humans behind Indonesia’s million-year-old tools?

A groundbreaking discovery on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveals that early hominins crossed treacherous seas over a ...
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1.5 million-year-old stone tools from mystery human relative discovered in Indonesia — they reached the region before our species even existed

Stone tools discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are rewriting what experts thought they knew about human evolution in this region. The tools date to about 1 million to 1.5 million years ...
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Fossils hint at intelligent tool use millions of years before humans

Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...

Volcanoes can help us untangle the evolution of humans—here's how

How did humans become human? Understanding when, where and in what environmental conditions our early ancestors lived is ...
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Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Archaeologists have ...
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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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Unknown human species in East Asia used sophisticated tools at the same time Neanderthals did in Europe

Human Evolution 'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species Human Evolution 1.5 ...

From Stone to Intelligent Agents: Claude 3.5/4 Unlocks Tool Utilization, AI is Reproducing the History of Human 'Tool Evolution'

From the moment primitive humans picked up the first stone as a tool, humanity embarked on an evolutionary journey from ignorance to wisdom. The use of tools has extended the boundaries of human ...
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When Did Human Ancestors Start Using Tools?

We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...
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Secrets unearthed: Women and children buried with stone tools

Archaeologists studying the vast Zvejnieki cemetery in Latvia have uncovered surprising truths about Stone Age life. Stone ...
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'We certainly weren't exceptional, but now we're the only ones left': In new PBS series 'Human,' anthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi explores how humans came to dominate E…

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...