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Neolithic man: The first lumberjack?

Neolithic man: The first lumberjack? | Science News | Scoop.it
"Intensive woodworking and tree-felling was a phenomenon that only appeared with the onset of the major changes in human life, including the transition to agriculture and permanent villages," says Dr. Barkai, whose research was published in the journal PLoS One. Prior to the Neolithic period, there is no evidence of tools that were powerful enough to cut and carve wood, let alone fell trees. But new archaeological evidence suggests that as the Neolithic age progressed, sophisticated carpentry developed alongside agriculture.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-08-neolithic-lumberjack.html#jCp

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Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools, anthropologists discover

Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools, anthropologists discover | Science News | Scoop.it
New published research from anthropologists in the UK supports the long-held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia and Europe engineered their stone tools. ...
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