New tools add to an emerging view of the past as a turbulent “Game of Thrones” style scenario, with distinct early human ancestors living in Eurasia before Homo sapiens arrived.
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Bringing the past into a digital space creates so much more overt space for interpretation and different narratives.
We can’t observe the brain activity of extinct human species. But we can observe modern brains doing the things that our distant ancestors did, looking for clues about how ancient brains worked.
Scientists are hoping that ancient stone tools found on a family farm in Kenya will add to a clearer picture of the first appearance, duration and variation of prehistoric technologies found so far.
New fossil finds show the first large-bodied inhabitants of an isolated Indonesian island evolved to Hobbit-size, but they always remembered how to make and use stone tools.
The discovery of the oldest modern human-like pinkie bone suggests that hands emerged very early in human evolution.
Stone tools have been integral to the way archaeologists have told the human story.
Discovery of 3.3m-year old stone tools in Kenya are the oldest-known manufactured artefacts.
Stone tools excavated in Kenya date back 3.3 million years – making them about a million years older than the oldest known fossils from our own hominid genus Homo. Who made and used these tools?
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Archéologue et chercheur au CNRS, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France; Université de Toulouse
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Principal Research Associate, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences at the University of Bath, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer, University of Mpumalanga
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Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
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Adjunct Senior Researcher at Griffith University and La Trobe University, and Ramón y Cajal (Senior) Research Fellow, Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH)
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Palaeolithic Archaeology, University of Southampton
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Professor, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Stone Age Institute and The Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology, Indiana University
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Curator at the Origins Centre Museum, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postgraduate Student in Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, University of Wollongong