Sentences with phrase «earliest stone artifacts»

The West Turkana Archaeological Project team, co-led by Drs. Harmand (with Stony Brook University's Turkana Basin Institute and the CNRS in France) and Lewis (TBI), had found the earliest stone artifacts, dating to 3.3 million years ago.

In the 1930s, paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed early stone artifacts at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and named them the Oldowan tool culture.

In the 1930s, famed paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed early stone artifacts at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, and named them the Oldowan tool culture.

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«The paper by Harmand et al describes a truly pathbreaking discovery, and moves the date of the earliest flaked stone artifacts back by almost 3/4 of a million years.

The first person in each group was taught by archaeologists how to make artifacts called Oldowan tools, which include fairly simple stone flakes that were manufactured by early humans beginning about 2.5 million years ago.

The West Turkana Archaeological Project team has found the earliest known stone artifacts, dating to 3.3 million years ago.

The character of some of these horizons may not meet the traditional criteria used by some archaeologists to define valid early sites, such as spatially continuous and multiple activity areas with numerous features, artifact clusters, and diagnostic bifacial stone tool assemblages [6,26,27].

The new evidence is multiple, spatially discontinuous, low - density occurrences of stratigraphic in situ stone artifacts, faunal remains, and burned areas that suggests discrete horizons of ephemeral human activity radiocarbon dated between ~ 14,500 and possibly as early as 19,000 cal BP.

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

Free standing sculpture, in stone and wood begins to be seen, as well as bronze statuettes (notably by the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the early engines of painting and sculpture in India), primitive jewellery and decorative designs on a variety of artifacts.

Archaeological sites with stone artifacts are attributed to the Paleo - Indian and early Archaic periods.