In 2009, 3.4-million-year-old bones — found in Dikika, Ethiopia, near site where a Lucy-like hominin was discovered — with slashes, parallel marks and other cut marks that appear to …
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2013128· Scientists have unearthed and dated some of the oldest stone hand axes on Earth. The ancient tools, unearthed in Ethiopia in the last two decades, date to 1.75 million …
Both of the cut-marked bones came from mammals -- one is a rib Until now, the oldest known evidence of butchering with stone tools came from Bouri, Ethiopia, where several cut-marked …
1129· Stone Tools at Arabian “Crossroads” Present Mysteries of Ancient Human Migration Hominins made stone tools in central Arabia 190,000 years ago, and the hand axe …
Stone scrapers continue to be used to process hides in Ethiopia. They are considered superior to iron tools for this because the stone is less likely to cut the hide. The stone scrapers are …
Choppers are stone cores with flakes removed from part of the surface, creating a sharpened edge that was used for cutting, chopping, and scraping (image 1985–0235). Microscopic …
pia) and Turkana (Kenya) also yielded stone tools dated to 2.3 Myr. Palaeoanthropological investigations in the Hadar region of the Awash Valley of Ethiopia\ revealed Oldowan …
201963· A team of international and local researchers working in Ethiopia have discovered the earliest-known examples of complex stone tools. With sharp edges intentionally made by …
201965· An international team of scientists has unearthed a collection of 2.6-million-year-old systematically flaked stone tools at the site of Bokol Dora 1 (BD1) in the Ledi-Geraru area, …
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2015520· Up until now, the earliest clear evidence of stone tools came from a 2.6-million-year-old site in Ethiopia. An early human ancestor called Homo habilis likely made them.
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201964· Researchers have unearthed some deliberately sharpened tools that date from over 2.5 million years ago. These artifacts are changing our understanding of the invention of …
“And the range of actions includes cutting and scraping for the removal of flesh, and percussion on the femur for breaking it to access marrow.” Cutting-edge technology. Until now, the oldest …
It includes the quarrying of the raw materials (obsidian), the manufacture of the tools, theSunction of the tools (hide scraping), and the reworking of the tools and their eventual disposal. The …
201965· ADDIS ABEBA – Ethiopian and international scientists have found 2.6 million years old stone tools in Ethiopia’s Afar Regional State. The newly discovered artifacts are very …
1997123· The Oldowan Stone tool industry was named for 1.8-million-year-old (Myr) artefacts found near the bottom of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Subsequent archaeological …
2010811· Until now, the oldest evidence for the manufacture of stone tools comes from finds in Gona, Ethiopia that are just 2.6 million years old, while the oldest cut-marked bones …
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Today, the Oldowan is still the earliest, universally acknowledged stone tool industry. Simple flaked tools like choppers, scrapers, or rudimentary cutting instruments are typical for this …
201964· The findings, based on the discovery of a collection of sharp-edged stone artifacts at the Bokol Dora 1 site in Ethiopia’s Afar Basin, push the origins of early human tool-making …
201963· A new archaeological site discovered by scientists working in Ethiopia shows that the origins of stone tool production are older than 2.58 million years ago. Previously, the oldest …
2012101· The oldest-known type of stone tools are stone flakes and the rock cores from which these flakes were removed. Presumably used for chopping and scraping, these tools …
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