What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits ... How did we become so dominant, so pervasive, so quickly? The material record — the archaeological record — largely consists of bits and pieces ...
The human Stone Age was ... a 1.6-to-0.7-million-year-old archeological site in the Ethiopian Highlands, researchers were able to infer what made a material useful to our ancient ancestors ...
These artifacts include ancient hand axes from the Early or Old Paleolithic, also known as the Old Stone Age ... to look for archaeological surface material. “The fieldwork was a huge success.