“Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago” (1) Nature paper
“Over a million years ago, #Ancient #Human #ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. …Their discovery, published today in #Nature, pushes back the age of a large bone tool kit by more than a million years.” — ABC story.
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[1] de la Torre, I., Doyon, L., Benito-Calvo, A. et al. Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08652-5