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How did prehistoric people hunt mammoths? They didn’t throw their spears
Rather than throwing spears, the researchers suggest that early humans might have used a technique involving planted pikes.
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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 ...
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Our ancestors were making bone tools a million years earlier than thought
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known bone tools, pushing back evidence of their use by around a million years.