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Approximately 900,000 years ago, human ancestors in this region made a leap in stone tool manufacturing, introducing techniques that have been referred to as "stone tech 2.0" by researchers.

Previous research has shown that the oldest known use of stone tools is by Oldowan hominins, dating back to approximately 2.5 million years ago. They used rocks as choppers, scrapers and simple ...

Modern chimpanzees select rock tools in similar ways to Oldowan hominins, early humans who used stone tools that date back to around 2.5 million years ago. According to a new study, these ...

“This area is very rich in a type of stone called hornfels, which was sought after by hunter-gatherers to make stone tools from ... how they were knapped — we call them refits — we can ...

Surprisingly, analyses of these stones and accompanying plant residues suggest that early Northern European farmers did not primarily use these tools for making bread but possibly for preparing ...