“Several projects have been undertaken by researchers since the 1968 excavations. These studies have indicated that Tiwai ...

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Archaeologists Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick, both at Indiana University, began working with Kanzi in 1990 to teach him and his sister Panbanisha how to make stone tools by using one rock as a ...

Gombore IB was the oldest inhabited site, dated to 1.7 mya. It contained almost 5,000 stone tools, three spheres, and two fragments of a Homo cf. ergaster humerus (upper arm bone). Spheres that ...

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A stone confirmed earlier human presence in Europe than previously believed. Credit: Roman Garba / Nature A recent study reveals that stone tools discovered at an ancient site in Ukraine are ...

Toward the end of the last ice age, an ancient human held a stone tool in their hand, then let it slip into the soil. Perhaps they had used the tool to scrape a deer hide, a bone or a piece of wood.

These were larger than the large stone tools at the site and provided the weight and cutting edges needed for particular tasks. The newly discovered bone tools from Olduvai contribute to our ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins first made a sharp stone flake by intention or by accident and then ...