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One of The Earliest Stone Tool Types Could Date Back 2.6 Million Years, New Data Show – ScienceAlert

Figuring out when the earliest human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, since it was such an important evolutionary…

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Figuring out when the earliest human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, since it was such an important evolutionary step. Remarkably, the projected date of early stone technology just got pushed back by tens of thousands of years.
Using a recently introduced type of statistical analysis, researchers estimated the proportion of stone tool artifacts that might be lying undiscovered based on what has been dug up so far. In turn, this gives us clues…

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