About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead. Read more ...

A Major Leap Forward in Technology Took Place 900,000 Years Ago
  Science Alert - December 11, 2024

Around 900,000 years ago stone tech 2.0 was released into Spain. University of Santiago de Compostela anthropologist Diego Lombao and colleagues found the earliest known European example of advanced stone tool techniques. Discovered at El Barranc de la Boella in northeastern Spain, the technological leap predates the evolutionary split between modern humans and Neanderthals, so these advances in stone tools were likely created and used by our shared ancestors and/or other now extinct human species.

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