ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. "In Stone Tools in Human Evolution, John J. Shea argues that over ...

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An analysis of stone tools found in Italy and Lebanon indicates that around 42,000 years ago, modern humans in Europe and the ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

Miniaturized stone tools have long been recognized as hallmarks of human adaptation, but their role in South China has ...

Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials sourced more than six miles away from where they were found in southwestern Kenya. In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ...

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We humans are nothing if not inventive. Our innovations have come to underpin virtually every facet of daily life—from what we eat to how we communicate. This ingenuity is intrinsically linked to both ...

Credit: Armando Falcucci Examples of stone tools from the Ahmarian at Ksar Akil (a & b) and the Protoaurignacian at Grotta di ...