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Tiny Flakes Tell a Story of Tool Use 300,000 Years Ago

When prehistoric people re-sharpened cutting tools 300,000 years ago, they dropped tiny chips of flint — which today yield evidence of how wood was processed by early humans. The small flint flakes were discovered at the Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Now, a multidisciplinary team led by the University of Tübingen and ...

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Tiny chips of flint discovered by archaeologists at the Lower Paleolithic site of Schöningen, Lower Saxony.

New Clues Answer Questions to Early Civilization in the United States

The discovery of a site, which dates back 14,550 years, shows that human civilizations existed in the southeastern United States much earlier than scientists previously believed by as much as 1,500 years. According to a research team led by a Florida State University professor, the discovery of stone tools alongside mastodon bones in a Florida ...

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Female archaeologist with mastadon bones.