Sentences with phrase «ancient stone tools»

A long record of ancient stone tools could tell us if the monkeys picked up tool use in response to an environmental stress, such as rapid sea level changes, for example.
The digital collection of animals, human ancestors, as well as ancient stone tools offers a unique tool for scholars and enthusiasts to explore and interact with the collection online.
Al Wusta's ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.
These appear to be inflicted from ancient stone tools, especially those used for shattering bones.
We know roughly when that change occurred from experiments in which researchers made their own versions of ancient stone tools using either their left or right hands to chip — or knap — the tool into shape, before comparing them with the tools made by early hominins.
To better understand ancient stone tools, his team creates facsimiles and tests their mechanical properties.
The discovery of ancient stone tools on Sulawesi, some of which date to as old as 194,000 years ago, also renews speculation about the evolutionary background of Homo floresiensis.
Digging in a cave called Liang Bua on the island of Flores, they discovered something intriguing: extremely ancient stone tools.
Archaeologists recently discovered ancient stone tools in India that date back to 385,000 years ago.
We switched our focus in the Archaeology module back to the Stone Age, starting with some hands - on learning about ancient stone tool technology.
In Seattle's expanded Nordic Museum, a striking building houses a collection ranging from ancient stone tools to Angry Birds.
An archaeological dig in Seattle has accidentally led to the discovery of ancient stone tools, estimated to be around 10,000 years old.
Scientists have found a new organic molecule that may be the mysterious culprit that is turning some ancient stone tools blue and casting a blue sheen over other irreplaceable archaeological artifacts in an old armory in Verona, Italy.
In the 1970s, a trawler working Oyster Cove in Chesapeake Bay on America's east coast dredged up ancient stone tools and mammal fossils.
So when one her team members uncovered an ancient stone tool called a biface, Halligan was ready.
That's where a team of archaeologists has found ancient stone tools and butchered mastodon bones that have been reliably dated to 14,550 years ago — more than 1000 years before scientists once thought humans first reached the New World.
FISHING boats in the North Sea bring up some strange things in their nets, from the bones of mammoths to ancient stone tools and weapons.
The ancient stone tools were found without human fossils so it is unclear whether they were developed in the same location or were brought along with a migrating population, according to archaeologists.
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