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  2. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    The following table attempts to list the oldest-known Paleolithic and Paleo-Indian sites where hominin tools have been found. It includes sites where compelling evidence of hominin tool use has been found, even if no actual tools have been found. Stone tools preserve more readily than tools of many other materials.

  3. Lomekwi - Wikipedia

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    An additional 130 artifacts were found on the surface. In one instance, Harmand's team was able to match a flake to its core, suggesting a hominin had made and discarded the tool at the site. [2] The tools were generally quite large – larger than the oldest known stone tools, recovered in the Gona area of the Afar Region of Ethiopia, in 1992

  4. Oldowan - Wikipedia

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    Oldowan tools have been found in Italy at the Monte Poggiolo open air site dated to approximately 850 ka, making them the oldest evidence of human habitation in Italy. In Germany tools have been found in river gravels at Kärlich dating from 300 ka. In the Czech Republic tools have been found in ancient lake deposits at Przeletice and a cave ...

  5. Archaeologists found ancient tools in Spain, revealing the daily life and agricultural practices of early Neolithic societies from over 7,000 years ago. Archaeologists Found 7,000-Year-Old ...

  6. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study. [26] [27] [28] [29]

  7. Stone tools in Ukraine offer oldest evidence of humans in Europe

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    A dating method based on cosmic rays has identified stone tools found in western Ukraine as the oldest-known evidence of human occupation in Europe - 1.4 million years ago - showing that the ...

  8. Ancient stone tools suggest first people arrived in America ...

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    Pieces of limestone from a cave in Mexico may be the oldest human tools ever found in the Americas, and suggest people first entered the continent up to 33,000 years ago – much earlier than ...

  9. Hand axe - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known Oldowan tools were found in Gona, Ethiopia. These are dated to about 2.6 mya. [43] Early examples of hand axes date back to 1.6 mya in the later Oldowan (Mode I), called the "developed Oldowan" by Mary Leakey. [44] These hand axes became more abundant in mode II Acheulean industries that appeared in Southern Ethiopia around 1.4 ...