Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past
Tides of History
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The Early Tool Makers Predicted the Future Need for Their Tools
A sharp flake, even when only an inch or two long, allowed its user to carve pieces of meat and carry off the food to eat it somewhere safer. The cores, the heavier hammerstones could still be used to break open the remaining bones from marrow. In some rudimentary way, writes the anthropologist Ian Tattersell, they were planners.
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