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Homo erectus' tools include geodes and fossils, possibly as a way to connect with the cosmos

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.
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How Archaeologists Borrow Interdisciplinary Tools with 'Wild Abandon': Using Planetary Geology to Inform Archaeology in the US

While the scientific fields of planetary geology and archaeology don’t initially seem like a natural pairing, their unique methodological and technological overlap provides scientists with a better ...
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Archaeologists Determine Ancient Origins of Cache of 35 Wooden Tools Found in China

View post: 50 Cent Responds to J. Cole's Revelation that He Wouldn't Sign Him to G-Unit A joint team of archaeologists, chronologists, geologists, and paleontologists have successfully dated a hoard ...
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Tools Uncovered in South African Caves May Indicate Ice Age Social Networks

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's Robberg caves match contemporaneous styles found in Namibia ...
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Archaeology 2.0 : new tools for communication and collaboration / edited by Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall

Outcome of a session held at the 2008 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Vancouver, British Columbia. Introduction: new directions for the digital past / Eric C. Kansa -- A Web ...
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Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years

ATHENS, Greece — Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country’s oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated ...