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Workshop from 1.2M years ago

2023-02-01 18:34:02.635628+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Archaeologists Discover 1.2 Million-Year-Old 'Workshop' in Mind-Blowing Find

The discovery pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by an astonishing 500,000 years, and reveals that the hominins who lived in this part of Ethiopia, known as Melka Kunture, must have been considerably skilled crafters in order to work with this capricious material.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01970-1

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