300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans.
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With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.
A close look at 7,000-year-old grinding stones left in ancient firepits shows wandering herders in northern Saudi Arabia carried heavy tools for working on bones, plants and rocks.
Two glass researchers explain how glass is made, the unique properties of glass and how those properties have allowed it to be a useful material to humans for thousands of years.
We studied people’s brains while they held tools correctly and incorrectly.
With caregivers’ faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they’d normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
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Lecturer in Psychology, University of East Anglia
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Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
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Professor in Psychology, University of Florida
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Senior Researcher, Institute of Heritage Science, National Research Council (CNR)
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Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University
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Director, Ha’il Archaeology Identification Project, University of Sydney; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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PhD Candidate in Materials Science, Penn State
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Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
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Professor, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Professor Emeritus, School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities, University of Sheffield
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Professor, Environmental Futures Research Centre, School of Science, University of Wollongong
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Senior Researcher, Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology