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  2. 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).

  3. Ubeidiya prehistoric site - Wikipedia

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    Yes. ' Ubeidiya (Arabic: العبيدية, romanized: `Ubaydiyya; Hebrew: עובידיה), some 3 km south of the Sea of Galilee, in the Jordan Rift Valley, Israel, is an archaeological site of the early Pleistocene, [1] c. 1.5 million years ago, preserving traces of one of the earliest migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa, with (as of 2014 ...

  4. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    East Africa. Paranthropus (associated) Hominin remains, stone tools. Some - e.g., Kathy Shick [16] - have suggested that the user of the tools in question may have been early Homo butchering Paranthropus as food. Bokol Dora 1 [17] (BD 1) 2.6 Ma. Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia.

  5. Oldowan - Wikipedia

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    These early tools were simple, usually made by chipping one, or a few, flakes off a stone using another stone. Oldowan tools were used during the Lower Paleolithic period, 2.9 million years ago up until at least 1.7 million years ago (Ma), by ancient Hominins (early humans) across much of Africa. This technological industry was followed by the ...

  6. Hand axe - Wikipedia

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    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] It is made from stone, usually flint or chert that has been "reduced" and shaped from a larger piece by knapping, or hitting against another stone. They are characteristic of the lower Acheulean and middle ...

  7. Cerutti Mastodon site - Wikipedia

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    The Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site located in San Diego County, California. In 2017, researchers announced that broken mastodon bones at the site had been dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.

  8. Levallois technique - Wikipedia

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    The Levallois technique of flint- knapping. The Levallois technique (IPA: [lə.va.lwa]) is a name given by archaeologists to a distinctive type of stone knapping developed around 250,000 to 300,000 years ago during the Middle Palaeolithic period. It is part of the Mousterian stone tool industry, and was used by the Neanderthals in Europe and by ...

  9. Dmanisi hominins - Wikipedia

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    The Dmanisi hominins, [1][2][3] Dmanisi people,[4] or Dmanisi man[5] were a population of Early Pleistocene hominins whose fossils have been recovered at Dmanisi, Georgia. The fossils and stone tools recovered at Dmanisi range in age from 1.85 to 1.77 million years old, [6][7][8] making the Dmanisi hominins the earliest well-dated hominin ...