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New dates for ancient stone tools in China point to local invention of complex technology

  • Written by Ben Marwick, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
Several of the newly identified stone tools – unearthed from a museum collection.Hu Yue, CC BY-ND

You probably think of new technologies as electronics you can carry in a pocket or wear on a wrist. But some of the most profound technological innovations in human evolution have been made out of stone. For most of the time that humans have been...

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