500,000-year-old elephant bone tool found in England reveals advanced early human technology
- pc: Study: Elephant-bone tool (NHMUK PV UNREG 4339) from intertidal deposits at the Boxgrove Waterhole SiteHalf a million years ago, people living in what is now southern England were doing far more than shaping stone into cutting tools.
- A newly analysed elephant bone from the famous Boxgrove archaeological site suggests they were carefully choosing, modifying and carrying specialised implements made from animal remains to improve their stone-working techniques.
- The discovery offers one of the clearest glimpses yet of how sophisticated Acheulean technology had become during the Middle Pleistoc
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- pc: Study: Elephant-bone tool (NHMUK PV UNREG 4339) from intertidal deposits at the Boxgrove Waterhole SiteHalf a million years ago, people living in what is now southern England were doing far more than shaping stone into cutting tools.
- A newly analysed elephant bone from the famous Boxgrove archaeological site suggests they were carefully choosing, modifying and carrying specialised implements made from animal remains to improve their stone-working techniques.
- The discovery offers one of the clearest glimpses yet of how sophisticated Acheulean technology had become during the Middle Pleistoc
Sources: Times of India