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Homo Erectus

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  • A diorama in National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, depicting the life size model of stone equipped hunter, a Homo erectus family living in Sangiran about 900,000 years ago.

    Homo erectus demise linked to elephants

    Scientists from Tel Aviv University proposed a new model that explains the disappearance of Homo erectus in favor of new species as being directly related to food sources (elephants) and the fat content available in a paper posted at the...

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  • Early humans were using stone hand axes as far back as 1.8 million years ago.

    The world’s oldest tools – so far

    Paleontologists have determined the age of Acheulian tools found at Kokiselei, Kenya to be about 1.76 million years old. These are the oldest known tolls used by Homo erectus. The research was reported in Nature on August 31, 2011...

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