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Drawing the Paleolithic picture
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Drawing the Paleolithic picture

China Daily  

At the Bashan site in Yishui county, Linyi city, Shandong, archaeologists have dug to a depth of about 8 meters, yielding stone tools and fossils in 14 layers, each indicating a different culture. At the Bashan site, the team has dug to a depth of nearly 8 meters, yielding stone tools and animal fossils in 14 layers, each indicating a …

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What our ancestors’ genomes can tell us about modern health | Explained
10 months, 1 week ago

What our ancestors’ genomes can tell us about modern health | Explained

The Hindu  

February 16, 2024 10:30 am | Updated February 19, 2024 05:17 pm IST Where did we come from? Studies of such ancestral DNA have provided glimpses into the genetic diversity and population dynamics of ancient communities, their migration patterns, interactions, and adaptations to local environments, and even into the diseases these people confronted and how the afflictions shaped human evolution. …

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Human ancestors butchered and ate each other, study reveals
1 year, 5 months ago

Human ancestors butchered and ate each other, study reveals

Hindustan Times  

Cut marks found on fossils of human leg bones are one of the earliest pieces of evidence that show that in ancient times, humans butchered each other and ate the flesh for survival, a recent study by science journal Nature stated. As per the study published by Nature on Monday, Early Pleistocene cut marked hominin fossil from Koobi Fora, Kenya, …

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Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years
1 year, 6 months ago

Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years

The Hindu  

Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country's oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern humans' hominin ancestors. The find announced Thursday would drag the dawn of Greek archaeology back by as much as a quarter of a million years, although older hominin sites have been …

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Archaeologists find neolithic stone tools in Hyderabad
1 year, 6 months ago

Archaeologists find neolithic stone tools in Hyderabad

The Hindu  

Archaeologists in Hyderabad have recently found rare stone tools, belonging to the neolithic age, with the findings indicating that the city's history goes back to about 6,000 years. He said they closely looked at a gap between two rocks and found as many neolithic stone tools. ".to our surprise, we noticed two neolithic stone tools which are known as new …

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Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools
1 year, 10 months ago

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

The Hindu  

Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at the Kenyan site belong to an extinct human cousin known as Paranthropus, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. The tools date back to around …

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2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools
1 year, 10 months ago

2.9-million-year-old butchery site in Kenya suggests humans perhaps weren't first to use crafted stone tools

ABC  

Around 2.9 million years ago, an ancient hominin in East Africa butchered a hippopotamus and feasted on its pulverised flesh. Key points: Archaeologists found fossilised hacked bones of animals alongside crafted stone tools The discovery pushes back the age at which crafted stone tools were used by around 300,000 years Discovery of teeth at the site raises the question of …

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Ancient stone tools found in Prakasam lead to startling revelations
2 years, 2 months ago

Ancient stone tools found in Prakasam lead to startling revelations

The Hindu  

Archaeologists and historians are agog over the findings of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, which stated that stone tools excavated from Hanumanthunipadu in Prakasam district can possibly be as old as 2.47 lakh years old — a development that could change the understanding of human evolution in India. According to a report, the stone tools found in Andhra Pradesh could …

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Not Pyramids of Giza or Stonehenge, This May be World's Oldest Archaeological Site
3 years, 3 months ago

Not Pyramids of Giza or Stonehenge, This May be World's Oldest Archaeological Site

News 18  

About 3.3 million years ago, a lakeside rock began to be chiselled away by a human hand. “Lomekwi 3 is the world’s oldest known archaeological site,” research co-author Lewis told Live Science. According to the website of the Smithsonian Institution’s Human Origins project, Australopithecus Garhi, a human progenitor that lived in east Africa approximately 2.5 million years ago, may have …

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