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Hand axe made 1.4 million years ago shows unexpected sophistication (www.haaretz.com)

About 1.4 million years ago a hominin in what is today Ethiopia painstakingly modified a hippopotamus bone into a hand axe, demonstrating command of advanced “Acheulean technique” that had only been thought to have developed half a million years later.

 

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