The world’s oldest stone tools were made by an ape-like hominid 3.3 million years ago, predating the emergence of the genus Homo by half a million years. This suggests that tool-making was not a unique feature of our ancestors but a more widespread and ancient skill among hominids. The discovery also challenges the conventional view that stone tools were linked to larger brains and language evolution. #stonetools #hominid #evolution https://www.iflscience.com/worlds-oldest-stone-tools-were-made-by-ape-like-hominid-33-million-years-ago-70138/

300,000-year-old giant handaxes unearthed in Kent

Archaeologists have unearthed “giant” prehistoric stone handaxes during excavations of an Ice Age site in Kent, England.

These handaxes are believed to be some of the largest stone tools from the Palaeolithic period found in Britain.

Continue Reading: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/07/300000-year-old-giant-handaxes-unearthed-in-kent/
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Archaeologists Keep Unearthing Mysterious 'Giant' Prehistoric Hand Tools
"There's no evidence that people at this time had much bigger hands... which makes it hard to imagine how the tool could have been easily handled."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5y5n7/archaeologists-keep-unearthing-mysterious-giant-prehistoric-hand-tools

#StoneTools #PreHistoric #Prehistory #Archaeology #HandTools

This is an #Obsidian blade core from #Azerbaijan, dating to the #ChalcolithicPeriod. Visit the 3D model to learn more: https://stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/west-asia/macroblade-core-3/1687/

#archaeology #stonetools #obsidian #lithics

https://twitter.com/MusofStoneTools/status/1665544923234586624?s=20

#Greece #Archaeology #StoneTools

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-newly-stone-tools-dawn-greek.html

I found this in the garden the other day digging up a dying plant to move it. It looks vaguely knife like to me but I am no expert so just wondering if anyone would know?
#histodons #stonetools #history.

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-stone-tools-migration-earliest-homo.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-05-stone-tools-migration-earliest-homo.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1653821732120043520#m

#Stonetools reflect three waves of migration of the earliest #Homosapiens into Europe @plos @PLOSONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article https://phys.org/news/2023-05-stone-tools-migration-earliest-homo.html

Obsidian Cliff: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/science/yellowstone-indigenous-people-obsidian.html?smid=url-share #obsidian #lithics #archaeology #stonetools #wyoming #nationalhistoriclandmark #nationalparks

This research is based on new analyses of stone tools used by long-tailed macaques in Thailand to crack open nuts, which produce fragments that resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artefacts (Max Planck Institute). #archaeology #primates #stonetools
https://www.mpg.de/19961779/0301-evan-stone-tools-of-early-humans-and-old-world-monkeys-150495-x

This research is based on new analyses of stone tools used by long-tailed macaques in Thailand to crack open nuts, which produce fragments that resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artefacts (Max Planck Institute). #archaeology #primates #stonetools
https://www.mpg.de/19961779/0301-evan-stone-tools-of-early-humans-and-old-world-monkeys-150495-x

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-03-similarities-stone-tools-early-humans.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-03-similarities-stone-tools-early-humans.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1634267885098119168#m

Surprising similarities in #stonetools of early humans and monkeys @ScienceAdvances https://phys.org/news/2023-03-similarities-stone-tools-early-humans.html

Who Made the First Stone Tool Kits? | Science| Smithsonian Magazine

Who Made the First Stone Tool Kits? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/who-made-the-first-stone-toolkits-180981606/
>A nearly three-million-year-old butchering site packed with animal bones, stone implements and molars from our early ancestors reignites the debate
#history #magazines #stonetools

2.9-million-year-old #toolkit in Kenya raises new questions
The assumption has long been that only the genus #Homo was capable of making stone tools. Finding the molars of #Paranthropus changes everything.

#archaeology #StoneTools #excavations #Nyayanga #kenya #OldowanToolkit

https://interestingengineering.com/science/oldest-stone-tools-kenya?utm_placement=newsletter

Have you heard the news about #Paranthropus? We now have confirmation, on some level, that they were using tools. We don’t know if they made them, but they have been found associated together. Learn more about this discovery, nd why it is, no is not important. https://dsh.re/7eed97 #paleoanthropology #archaeology #lithics #stonetools #worldofpaleoanthropology Learn more: www.worldofPaleoanthropology.org!

Who butchered this ancient hippo?

#Archaeologists in Kenya have unearthed dozens of #StoneTools scattered around the butchered bones of ancient #hippopotamus-like creatures. The site dates to between 2.6 and 3 million years ago, and pushes back the known start of large-animal butchering by early human relatives by at least 600,000 years. The tools are the earliest known example — by around 700,000 years — of #Oldowan tools, which became widespread across #Africa cont..

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00386-6

Discovery of 3m-year-old stone tools sparks prehistoric whodunnit

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/09/discovery-ancient-stone-tools-prehistoric-mystery-whodunnit

#history #StoneTools #prehistory

I'm interested in the concept of #Personhood in #Nonhuman #Animals , and found this article about #StoneAge #Tools in animals relevant.

I hope you find it interesting

#NonhumanArchaeology #Evolution #StoneTools

https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools

Monkeys, not humans, made the oldest stone tools in Brazil | Plants And Animals
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#Brazil
#Capuchin

Stone tools dated to 50,000 years ago were probably made by capuchin monkeys, not humans. | Plants And Animals

https://www.labroots.com/trending/technology/24411/monkeys-humans-stone-tools-brazil

Monkeys, not humans, made the oldest stone tools in Brazil | Plants And Animals
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#Capuchin

Stone tools dated to 50,000 years ago were probably made by capuchin monkeys, not humans. | Plants And Animals

https://www.labroots.com/trending/technology/24411/monkeys-humans-stone-tools-brazil

#Blood residue on #StoneTools provides first evidence for Paleo-Indian (#Gainey) #mastodon hunting 13,000 years ago in Southern #Ontario region, #Canada:

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2022/12/31/discovery-of-mastodon-blood-on-ice-age-tools-first-of-its-kind-in-ontario.html by @katejmccullough@twitter.com via @TheSpec@twitter.com