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  2. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    Many such sites have hominin bones, teeth, or footprints, but unless they also include evidence for tools or tool use, they are omitted here. This list excludes tools and tool use attributed to non-hominin species. See Tool use by non-humans. Since there are far too many hominin tool sites to list on a single page, this page attempts to list ...

  3. Hand axe - Wikipedia

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    The first published picture of a hand axe, drawn by John Frere in the year 1800. Flint hand axe found in Winchester. A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. [1]

  4. Human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Researchers have suggested that early hominins were thus under evolutionary pressure to increase their capacity to create and use tools. [191] Precisely when early humans started to use tools is difficult to determine, because the more primitive these tools are (for example, sharp-edged stones) the more difficult it is to decide whether they ...

  5. Outline of prehistoric technology - Wikipedia

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    Stone tool use – early human (hominid) use of stone tool technology, such as the hand axe, was similar to that of primates, which is found to be limited to the intelligence levels of modern children aged 3 to 5 years. Ancestors of homo sapiens (modern man) used stone tools as follows: Homo habilis ("handy man

  6. Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

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    Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers.

  7. Stone tool - Wikipedia

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    The stone tools may have been made by Australopithecus afarensis, the species whose best fossil example is Lucy, which inhabited East Africa at the same time as the date of the oldest stone tools, a yet unidentified species, or by Kenyanthropus platyops (a 3.2 to 3.5-million-year-old Pliocene hominin fossil discovered in 1999).

  8. Yukon gold miners are unearthing mummified ancient creatures ...

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    Photos from inside the gold mines and the lab offer a glimpse at the ancient past. ... So far, early humans' tools have been found in the frozen soil, but no Ice Age humans have turned up.

  9. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    Early humans were social and initially scavenged, before becoming active hunters. The need to communicate and hunt prey efficiently in a new, fluctuating environment (where the locations of resources need to be memorized and told) may have driven the expansion of the brain from 2 to 0.8 Ma. Evolution of dark skin at about 1.2 Ma. [39]