Homo Erectus Used a Variety of Stone Tools for Hundreds of Thousands of Years, Study Finds. Published Mar 04, 2020 at 2:00 PM EST. By . Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the ...

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What’s more, the extensive time range of both H. erectus and Acheulian stone tools, which lasted for more than a million years (from 1.7 million to 300,000 years ago), served to reinforce this ...

Someone made very sophisticated wooden tools in China 300,000 years ago, and it might have been Denisovans or even Homo ...

Homo erectus study reveals 4 new facts about this ancient human. ... These widely used stone tools are simple in design — a sharpened rock, with a few flakes chipped off.

Some staggeringly old stone tools were found in the Turkana region of Kenya, according to a new study out today. They're so old, in fact, that Homo erectus (the species before our own Homo sapiens ...

Earlier dating work by Lepre and Kent helped lead to another landmark paper in 2011: a study that suggested Homo erectus, ... Citation: Oldest-known stone tools pre-date Homo (2015 ...

Scientists have unearthed and dated some of the oldest stone hand axes on Earth. The ancient tools, ... Homo erectus was making these tools at Konso,' and that's very difficult to prove," Morgan said.

Stone tools unearthed at an archaeological site in Ukraine are about 1.4 million years old, representing the oldest evidence of human presence in Europe, according to a new study.

The first animals that could arguably be called “human” made the evolutionary scene a little less than 2 million years ago. These aren’t folks you’d mistake for modern-day Homo sapiens, or ...