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Europe’s earliest bone tools found in Britain – BBC News
Archaeologists say they’ve discovered the earliest known bone tools in Europe.
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One of the oldest organic tools in the world. A bone hammer used to make the fine flint bifaces from Boxgrove. The bone shows scraping marks used to prepare the bone as well as pitting left behind from its use in making flint tools
Archaeologists say they’ve discovered the earliest known bone tools in the European archaeological record.
The implements come from the renowned Boxgrove site in West Sussex, which was excavated in the 1980s…
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