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A young archaeologist re-creates a prehistoric flaked - stone technology in order to understand how our ancestors made and used early stone tools more than two million years ago

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Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

More than half a century later, Premo and colleagues at the University of Tubingen, George Washington University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology are asking for better evidence that the technique for making early stone tools was culturally transmitted.

Although some researchers suspect that earlier hominids, not modern humans, made the stone tools, Marks is hopeful that future digs in Arabia, Iran, and western India will unearth still more evidence of humanity's bold, early route out of Africa.

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A study in the journal Science suggests that early humans were fire - treating stone more than 70,000 years ago to make better stone tools.

These results support previously published archaeological evidence for stone tool use in australopiths and provide skeletal evidence that our early ancestors used human - like hand postures much earlier and more frequently than previously considered.

New research suggests that advances in the production of Early Stone Age tools had less to do with the evolution of language and more to do with the brain networks involved in modern piano playing.

This means that our earliest stone tool producing ancestors were likely to have experienced similar recruitment levels, with those individuals displaying a stronger, more robust thumb being more capable stone tool producers and thus having an evolutionary advantage.

It remains unclear what hominin species was responsible for the manufacture of the earlier and later stone tool assemblages from Jubbah, and it is entirely possible that more than one species was involved.

Using new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools show evidence of a shift toward more experimentation in their production beginning about 12,500 years ago, following hundreds of years of consistent stone - tool production created using uniform techniques.

Since 1973, the fieldwork at Hadar has produced more than 370 fossil specimens of Australopithecus afarensis between 3.4 and 3.0 million years ago — one of the largest collections of a single fossil hominin species in Africa — as well as one of the earliest known fossils of Homo and abundant Oldowan stone tools (ca. 2.3 million).