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Making a Sphere: 3D Analysis of the "Ubeidiya Spheroids"

An Catalan and Israeli team is working to solve the mystery of stone balls that appear in different archeological sites from 1.5 million-years ago
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An Catalan and Israeli team is working to solve the mystery of stone balls that appear in different archeological sites from 1.5 million-years ago

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The Pleistocene in Eritrea, animals, plants and tools of a million years

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Determining fire signatures in chert in apparently-non-thermally altered sediments

New data about lithic raw materials indicates hominin behavioral flexibility more than one million years ago at the Oldowan sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain)
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New data about lithic raw materials indicates hominin behavioral flexibility more than one million years ago at the Oldowan sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain)

The technology of the first hominins allowed them to adapt to environmental changes 2 million years ago
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The technology of the first hominins allowed them to adapt to environmental changes 2 million years ago

Advances in the study of microbotanical residues in the early hominin stone tools
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Advances in the study of microbotanical residues in the early hominin stone tools

A rock from 1.4 million years ago confirms that human occupation in Atapuerca is older than previously thought
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A rock from 1.4 million years ago confirms that human occupation in Atapuerca is older than previously thought

1.4 MILLION YEARS AGO IN EUROPE, ORCE BECAME AN AREA OF ATTRACTION FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF STONE TOOLS
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1.4 MILLION YEARS AGO IN EUROPE, ORCE BECAME AN AREA OF ATTRACTION FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF STONE TOOLS

450,000 YEARS AGO, TECHNOLOGICAL AND SUBSISTENCE ADVANCES COULD HAVE HELPED TO OVERCOME CLIMATIC CONDITIONS MARKED BY ARIDITY AND COLD
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450,000 YEARS AGO, TECHNOLOGICAL AND SUBSISTENCE ADVANCES COULD HAVE HELPED TO OVERCOME CLIMATIC CONDITIONS MARKED BY ARIDITY AND COLD

HOMININS IN TANZANIA EXPLOITED DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS 2 MILLION YEARS AGO
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HOMININS IN TANZANIA EXPLOITED DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS 2 MILLION YEARS AGO

The 13th archaeological excavation campaign in the Barranc de la Boella ends
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The 13th archaeological excavation campaign in the Barranc de la Boella ends

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TWO STONE TOOLS ON QUARTZITE FROM GRAN DOLINA MIGHT PROOF THAT HUMAN OCCUPATION WAS STEADY IN ATAPUERCA ALONG 1.4 MILLION YEARS

Technological evolution towards the Neanderthal world in Atapuerca between 350,000 and 250,000 years ago
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Technological evolution towards the Neanderthal world in Atapuerca between 350,000 and 250,000 years ago

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