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Article: Anthropologists conclude Africans were first to make tools about 90,000 years ago.
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- May 15, 1995
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Stone Age humans first learned to make sophisticated tools about 90,000 years ago in Africa and not in Europe as had been widely believed, new research reveals.
The findings, reported in the journal Science, means that technology of that level reached Africa about 75,000 years before it began appearing in Europe or Asia. A discovery that is in line with other evidence that shows that anatomically man first evolved in Africa, perhaps some 125,000 years ago, and then reached Europe and Asia much later, bringing their superior tool-making abilities with them.
Previous to the recent discovery, researchers ...
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