Was it a stone tool or just a rock? An archaeologist explains how scientists can tell the difference
Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...
When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes, and ...
The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...
The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya. Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at ...
About 250,000 years ago, Stone Age human relatives butchered a bunch of animals with stone tools and didn't wash up afterwards. Now scientists have analyzed the gunk crusted to the tools and figured ...
Was it a stone tool or just a rock? An archaeologist explains how scientists can tell the difference
John K. Murray does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Was it a stone tool or just a rock? An archaeologist explains how scientists can tell the difference
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) At first glance, it might seem impossible to decipher. But as an experimental ...
Was it a stone tool or just a rock? An archaeologist explains how scientists can tell the difference
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John K. Murray, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you ever found ...
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