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  2. Homo habilis - Wikipedia

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    H. habilis manufactured the Oldowan stone-tool industry and mainly used tools in butchering. Early Homo, compared to australopithecines, are generally thought to have consumed high quantities of meat and, in the case of H. habilis, scavenged meat.

  3. Calico Early Man Site - Wikipedia

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    Thousands of rocks that bear a strong resemblance to prehistoric tools have been found at the site, both on the surface, and up to 8 m (26 ft) below the surface. A stone from the Master Pit had been dated to over 200,000 BP. This date could have been the result of contamination from other elements in the soil, so currently there is an effort to ...

  4. Happisburgh footprints - Wikipedia

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    The tools are believed to have been made by Homo antecessor, the same species thought to have made the footprints, and are the earliest artefacts found in northern Europe. [ 6 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Archaeologists hope to reconstruct the environment in which the footprints were made by analysing remains of flora and fauna from the sediments.

  5. List of human evolution fossils - Wikipedia

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    Homo habilis: 1949 Swartkrans, South Africa: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History OH 24 (Twiggy) [39] 1.80 Homo habilis: 1968 Tanzania: Peter Nzube OH 8 [40] 1.80 Homo habilis: 1960 Olduvai, Tanzania: D2700 (Dmanisi Skull 3) 1.81±0.40 [41] Homo erectus: 2001 Dmanisi, Georgia: David Lordkipanidze and Abesalom Vekua D3444 (Dmanisi Skull 4 ...

  6. Oldowan - Wikipedia

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    Currently the artifacts found are classified as Oldowan or KBS Oldowan dated from 1.9–1.7 Ma, Karari (or "advanced Oldowan") dated to 1.6–1.4 Ma, and some early Acheulean at the end of the Karari. Over 200 hominins have been found, including Australopithecus and Homo.

  7. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Homo habilis is the oldest species given the designation Homo, by Leakey et al. in 1964. H. habilis is intermediate between Australopithecus afarensis and H. erectus, and there have been suggestions to re-classify it within genus Australopithecus, as Australopithecus habilis. LD 350-1 is now considered the earliest known specimen of the genus ...

  8. Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best ...

  9. Dmanisi hominins - Wikipedia

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    The researchers found that the Dmanisi hominins "cannot unequivocally be referred either to H. habilis or to H. erectus" and that there, in regards to early Homo, was a "continuum of forms"; Skull 5 appears to share many primitive features with H. habilis whereas Skull 1, with the largest brain, is more similar to African H. ergaster/H. erectus ...