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Oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe identified
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Oldest elephant-bone tool in Europe identified
Analysis of a fragment of elephant bone, first discovered during excavations at Boxgrove, West Sussex, in the early 1990s (see CA 153), has revealed that it was used as a hammer by early hominins roughly 500,000 years ago, making it the oldest elephant-bone tool to be discovered in Europe. The bone’s full significance was not…
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