The standardised production of bone tools by our ancestors pushed back one million years (IMAGE)

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The standardised production of bone tools by our ancestors pushed back one million years

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Tool shaped out of an elephant’s humerus. It was discovered at site T69 in the Olduvai Gorge.

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Top: © d’Errico-Doyon, Bottom: © Laboratorio de Arqueología del Pleistoceno-CSIC

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