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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
Discovery places complex cognition at 72,000 years ago, and perhaps far earlier
Watch an interview with Lead Author Kyle Brown
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzDATq5BXA[/youtube]
TEMPE, Ariz. – Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology – the controlled use of fire – to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, is being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of the journal Science. An international team of researchers, including three from the Institute of ...read more
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Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone
This Press Release supplied by ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone Discovery places complex cognition at 72,000 years ago, and perhaps far earlier Watch an interview with Lead Author Kyle Brown [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JzDATq5BXA[/youtube] TEMPE, Ariz. – Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of the far southern tip of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology – the controlled use of fire – to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, is being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of the journal Science. An international team of researchers, including three from the Institute of ...read more
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