Sentences with phrase «very early stone tools»

There are challenges to finding very early stone tools, he explained, because «they are likely very simple flakes that were originally scattered across the landscape.»

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In 2011, another Nature paper featuring Dr Katerina Douka of the Oxford team obtained some very early dates (around 45,000 years old) for the so - called «transitional» Uluzzian stone - tool industry of Italy and identified teeth remains in the site of the Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, as those of anatomically modern humans.

«The archaeological record of the earliest stone tools does not support a nut - cracking stage in the development of the earliest technology... in most sites the pounding tools used by chimpanzees are very rare.»