Neanderthals glued their tools together
Enlarge / Neanderthals lived in Grotta di Sant’Agostino between 55,000 and 40,000 years ago. (credit: Degano et al. 2019) Neanderthals glued their stone tools into place on wooden handles, a…
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Capuchin monkeys have a 3,000-year archaeological record
Enlarge (credit: By Tiago Falótico – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60386655) The archaeological record of human tools use dates back about 2.5 million years, and archaeologists use changes in…
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Archaeologists find DNA in a 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum
Enlarge (credit: Kashuba et al. 2019) The people who lived at Huseby-Kiev in western Sweden 10,000 years ago made their living by hunting and fishing. That doesn’t sound surprising until…