This 430,000-Year-Old Stick Could Actually Be One of Humanity’s Earliest Tools

Researchers believe the ancient wood, found in Greece, is actually evidence of the earliest hand-held wooden tool usage in ...
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50,000-Year-Old Artifacts Unearthed at Controversial Archaeological Site Could Rewrite the Early Prehistory of the Americas

Discoveries at a controversial southeastern archaeological site could potentially push back the timelines for human arrival in the Americas.
New Scientist

Deep time journeys: A cross-continental look at early human archaeology

Journey across tens of thousands of years in Deep Time Journeys: A Cross-Continental Look at Early Human Archaeology, a webinar that uncovers the sweeping story of our earliest ancestors. Led by ...
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The archaeology of early China : from prehistory to the Han Dynasty / Gideon Shelach-Lavi (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

1. The geographic and environmental background -- 2. Before cultivation : human origins and the incipient development of human culture in China -- 3. The transition to food production : variability ...

Why 430,000-year-old wooden tools are changing what we know about early humans

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...
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A brief history of archaeology : classical times to the twenty-first century / Brian M. Fagan and Nadia Durrani

ANTH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. 13 After Processualism14 The Future; Glossary: Archaeological Sites and Cultural Terms; References; Index; Beginnings; A Past "Five ...