New research provides strong evidence that the development of technology played a fundamental role in early human evolution.

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The Oldowan stone tools from Hadar ... tool use may have driven the further evolution of the human hand. Individuals whose hands happened to be better adapted for tool use would tend to be ...

The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have ... This volume has a good feel to it - a handsome compact book about the early archaeology of human evolution, ...

The past decade of advances in molecular genetic technology has heralded a new era for all evolutionary studies, but especially the science of human evolution ... culture of stone tools (called ...

The emergence of stone tool technology represents — in hindsight — a momentous step in human evolution (Figure 2). With sharp flakes and simple core tools, early hominins could easily slice ...

This dependence on giant proboscids is part of the universal theory of early human evolution previously proposed by Prof ... Hunting elephants and, mainly, butchering them required immense quanitities ...

This discovery is unexpected in the genetic archives of southern Africa. Scientists have reconstructed the history of ...

Around 300,000 years ago, they began to shape stone cores from flint that they could carry as a kind of toolkit. They would strike off flakes from this portable core and skilfully turn them into tools ...

Innovation in Stone Tool Technology Involved Multiple Stages at the Time of Modern Human Dispersals Feb. 7, 2024 — A new study illuminates the cultural evolution that took place approximately ...