Tag: Ancient technology
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160,000-Year-Old Stone Tools in China Challenge Homo Sapiens
New Evidence Pushes Back the Timeline for Stone Tool Technology Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable set of stone tools in what is now China dating back around 160,000 years. The find suggests that sophisticated toolmaking occurred in East Asia far earlier than many previous assessments, and it raises possibility that the tools were not made…
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Ancient Wood, Modern Insight: Oldest Wooden Tools Recovered in Greece
Groundbreaking Find in a Greek Lakeside Archaeologists have announced a landmark discovery at a lakeside site in Greece: the oldest wooden tools yet recovered anywhere in the world. The artifacts, dating back about 430,000 years, were unearthed along the shore, offering fresh perspective on early human ingenuity and daily life long before Homo sapiens became…
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Oldest Elephant Bone Ax Sharpener Found in Europe (UK)
Introduction: A Glimpse into Europe’s Ancient Tool-Makers In a remarkable find that reshapes our understanding of prehistoric European technology, researchers have identified a 480,000-year-old artifact crafted from elephant bone. This triangular tool functioned as an ax sharpener, offering rare evidence that early human relatives in the British Isles refined tools with precision far earlier than…
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Oldest Elephant Bone Tool Discovered in Europe: A 480,000-Year-Old Axe Sharpener
Introduction: A Window into Europe’s Ancient Tech A tiny, triangular artifact has rewritten parts of Europe’s early technological story. Dated to roughly 480,000 years ago, the bone tool—crafted from an elephant’s leg bone—has been identified as an axe sharpener used by archaic human relatives in what is now Britain. This discovery not only extends the…
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MIT CT Scans Reveal Early Copper Smelting and the Birth of Metallurgy in Ancient Iran
Uncovering an Ancient Breakthrough Around 5,000 years ago, communities in what is now Iran began extracting copper from rock through a process called smelting. This pivotal shift is believed to have laid the groundwork for metallurgy, a technology that would reshape human societies. New findings from MIT researchers, who employed computed tomography (CT) scans, illuminate…
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How a 3,000-Year-Old Workshop May Unravel the Iron Age Origins
New clues from a 3,000-year-old workshop The Iron Age transformed human civilization with durable tools, improved farming, and new forms of conflict. Yet the origin story of how iron became central to technology remains debated. A fresh examination of a 3,000-year-old site in southern Georgia—Kvemo Bolnisi—offers compelling evidence that iron may have entered metallurgical practice…
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How Copper Smelters Accidentally Sparked the Iron Age
Uncovering a Hidden Link Between Copper and Iron The idea that the Iron Age began with a single, momentous breakthrough is being challenged by new evidence from Cranfield University. Researchers revisited a 3,000-year-old workshop at Kvemo Bolnisi in southern Georgia and uncovered a surprising twist in the story of metallurgy: iron oxide particles were present…