From Stone Tools to Guns: A Timeline of Ancient Weapons
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Humans have been hitting, stabbing, and shooting each other for a long time. But when did we first develop ancient weapons, and…
Was the Sphere the First Geometrical Form Made by Humans?
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Important scientific advances are changing what we know about the technological, social, and cognitive traits of our ancient…
2.9-Million-Year-Old Artifacts Suggest Ancient, Big-Toothed Hominin Made Stone Tools
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Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from…
Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools
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Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they…
Denizens of South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind: The First Walking Apes
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The human story begins in Africa. Of the many fascinating fossil sites in Africa, an important one is the Cradle of Humankind…
Automation is old – and so is the hype around new waves of invention
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With advances in artificial intelligence (AI), it seems that the range of economic activities that can and will be automated is…
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Yesterday I drove Mrs Gee, a student nurse at the University of East Anglia, to UEA where she had to do some necessary admin…
'What's the Coolest Thing You've Ever Found?' Real Archaeologists Share Their Favorite Finds
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Every artifact has a story to tell. What makes a discovery meaningful for archaeologists may surprise you.
Monkeys Smashing Nuts Hint at How Human Toolmaking Evolved
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Human beings used to be defined as “the tool-maker” species. But the uniqueness of this description was challenged in the 1960s…
Taking a ‘Knapp’ With Our Ancient Ancestors - Stone Tools Through the Ages
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The process of creating lithic tools took our hominin species millions of years to perfect. However, we often dismiss stone…
Monkeys smashing nuts with stones hint at how human tool use evolved
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A capuchin monkey in Brazil hoists a stone tool to crack open nuts. Luca Antonio Marino, CC BY-ND Human beings used to be…
Tackling Stone Age stereotypes and misconceptions including this: They made tools out of more than just stone
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The Australopiths: Our Ancient, Ape-like Forefathers
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A reconstruction of the skull of Australopithecus afarensis. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 1.2 to 4.4 million years ago was a…
Australian archaeologists dropped the term Stone Age decades ago, and so should you
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“Stone Age” is a term often used to refer to early periods in human cultural evolution, when deliberately manufactured sharp…
Were Hominins In China 2.1 Million Years Ago?
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Nearly a hundred stone tools excavated from multiple layers at a site in China point to hominins — our ancestors and closest…
Bare bones: Five human ancestors known only from a few fossils
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You’d be amazed how little evidence supports many of our ancient human ancestors. Here are the five species with the fewest…
Racism behind outlandish theories about Africa’s ancient architecture
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Some of the most impressive buildings and cities ever made by humans can be found in Africa: the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe…
It took these monkeys just 13 years to learn how to crack nuts
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The long-tailed macaques of Thailand already used stone hammers to split open shellfish, and now they have worked out how to…
Our Uniquely Lopsided Brain
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Understanding the structure of our brain is as important as understanding its size when it comes to evolution, a new report…
Are you a Righty or Lefty? Ancient Teeth and Tools May Explain the Evolution of Handedness
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Roughly 90% of humans are right-handed and this is one of the traits that separates us from most other primates who don’t…
Why are most people right handed? The answer may be in the mouths of our ancestors
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Yabba dabba don't: archaeology needs to leave the stone age behind
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A label doesn’t just describe, it shapes our imaginations - so let’s ditch stone age with its limited range and Flintstones…
Monkeys Make Stone Tools by Accident—and That’s Actually a Big Deal
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The discovery may offer new insights into how our distant ancestors created the first knives, axes, and spears.Continue reading…
What do capuchin stone tools tell us about human evolution?
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A month ago at ESHE and now online in Nature, Proffitt and colleagues describe stone-on-stone smashing behavior among wild…
#FossilFriday: 2015 Retrospecticus
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Holy crap 2015 was a big year for fossils. And how fortuitous that 2016 begins on a Fossil Friday – let’s recap some of last…
Dating Hominin Tool Use
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When did our ancestors first start to use tools? That is a very interesting question, and immediately leads to the question of…
Human evolution: the discipline that can save the biosphere
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Part II: The Solution This is a guest post by Simon Hoyte, a biology gra...
We are all African, but we also have our own histories
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In May 2015, at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, a French-led international team announced the discovery of the oldest…
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Des outils en pierre taillée vieux de 3,3 millions d’années
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La découverte, au Kenya, des plus vieux outils de pierre taillée connus à ce jour, dont la revue Nature s’est fait récemment l’éc…
Justice Scalia And The Age Of Humanity
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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaking in Atlanta. Dave Tulis/AP…
Hominins Used Stone Tools at Least 3.3 Million Years Ago
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(p. A4) One morning in July 2011, while exploring arid badlands near the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, a team of…
Declaring The Discovery Of A New Species Can Get Tricky
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The jaw fragment and teeth of Australopithecus deyiremeda, found in the Afar region of Ethiopia.
May High Five – A Warm-Blooded Fish and Other Odd Discoveries
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Welcome to Altmetric’s “High Five” for May, a discussion of the top five scientific papers with the highest Altmetric scores…
L’officina pre-umana
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SCOPERTE – La tribù degli Hominini si sta allargando a nuove specie, l’ultima ha fatto la sua comparsa giovedì scorso su Nature…
Lomekwiense. La tecnología lítica anterior a los humanos.
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Localización de Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) y otros sitios arqueológicos al Oeste del Lago TurkanaLa fabricación de herramientas está bien…
As they were found in Africa they are tools...
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A paper published in Nature describes the finding of the most ancient stone tools, and informs that they predate the genus "Homo…
Our Stone Tool Discovery Pushes Back The Archaeological Record By 700,000 Years
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Nature ：封面故事:最早已知石器记录又被打破
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本期封面所示为来自肯尼亚图尔卡纳湖西岸 “Lomekwi 3”发掘点的石器。当Louis Leakey
3.3 Million Year Old Stone Tools Predate Homo By 500,000 Years
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Tool unearthed at excavation site. Credit: MPK-WTAP 149 stone flakes, hammers and anvils, found off at the Lomekwi 3 site on…
Scientists announce the discovery of the World’s oldest stone tools
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Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long…
Oldest-known stone tools pre-date Homo habilis
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A stone tool unearthed at excavation site. (Photo Credit: MPK-WTAP) Stone tools dated to 3.3 million years ago, discovered in…
Discovery of world's oldest stone tools
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Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long…
World's Oldest Stone Tools Predate Humans
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This is an updated version of our post from April 2015. Archaeologists say they’ve unearthed the world’s oldest stone tools…
Stone tool discovery pushes back dawn of culture by 700,000 years
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Finding overturns idea that tool-making ability was unique to our own ancestors and is hailed as a “new beginning to the known…
The Oldest Stone Tools Predate Homo Sapiens by Millions of Years
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Scientists have discovered the oldest stone tools ever found, dating back some 3.3 million years to Pliocene Africa—long before…