News tagged with stone tools
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Australian archaeologists uncover 40,000-year-old site
Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday.
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Mar 10, 2010 |
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'Pompeii-like' excavations tell us more about Toba super-eruption
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how people lived before and after the colossal Toba volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.
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Feb 24, 2010 |
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Feet may be the key to hand evolution
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Canada have used a mathematical model to simulate the evolution from an ape-like hand to the modern-day human hand, and discovered that changes in our fingers and hands developed ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought
Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago - some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated ...
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Dec 22, 2009 |
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Evolution axe goes on display
(PhysOrg.com) -- A flint hand axe that helped reveal the very ancient age of humankind goes on display at the Natural History Museum October 2009.
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Prehistoric tools discovered at Isles of Shoals
(PhysOrg.com) -- Summer students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell's marine field station, have discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles ...
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Aug 27, 2009 |
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Stone tools, rare animal bones discovered -- clues to Caribbean's earliest inhabitants
A prehistoric water-filled cave in the Dominican Republic has become a "treasure trove" with the announcement by Indiana University archaeologists of the discovery of stone tools, a small primate skull in ...
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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Ancient Humans Left Evidence from the Party that Ended 4,000 Years Ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have ...
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Jul 21, 2009 |
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Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand ...
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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13,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Cache in Colorado Shows Evidence of Camel, Horse Butchering
(PhysOrg.com) -- A biochemical analysis of a rare Clovis-era stone tool cache recently unearthed in the city limits of Boulder, Colo., indicates some of the implements were used to butcher ice-age camels and ...
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Feb 25, 2009 |
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