Some researchers consider Homo erectus to be the immediate ancestor of our own species, Homo sapiens.
—one of our ancient ancestors—alongside various types of stone tool of differing complexity at a site in Ethiopia, casting new light on the use of technology by early humans.
The researchers dated one of the skulls, dubbed BSN12, to around 1.26 million years ago, while the other, known as DAN5, appears to be between 1.6 and 1.5 million years old.Michael J. Rogers, Southern Connecticut State Universitycranial fossils in direct association—i.e.
"For many years, paleoanthropologists had embraced a simplistic one-to-one correlation of tool traditions and species, with Oldowan tools associated with early Homo and the more advanced tools of the Acheulian tradition associated with the larger-brained Homo erectus," he told"While it has long been recognized elements of the Oldowan tradition continue into the earlyperiod, this study tells us just how long this persistence was, reflecting technological practices that endured for...
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