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How Did Ice Age Humans Kill Huge Animals Like Mammoths? Probably Not by Throwing Spears, Study Finds
But they’ve long puzzled over how early humans actually used Clovis points. Since other parts of spears were likely made from ...
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Archaeologists Figured Out How Early Humans Killed Ice Age Mammoths. It’s Not How You Think.
Depictions of ancient humans in both scientific and popular culture contexts picture them throwing spears at the thick hides of mammoths. A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests ...
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Oldest bone tools suggest early humans were smarter than we thought
Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old bone tools, proving early humans had advanced skills much earlier than ...
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Early humans made tools from bones 1 million years sooner than scientists thought
Archeologists know early humans used stone to make tools long before the time of Homo sapiens. But a new discovery out this ...