Small Flakes Reveal Evidence of Tool Use From 300,000 Years Ago

Tiny flint chips that were dropped by prehistoric people 300,000 years ago when they honed their cutting tools now show how early humans treated wood.

The tiny flakes of flint were found at the Lower Paleolithic Schöningen site in Lower Saxony. This location is around two meters below the well-known location of the earliest spears ever found. The information found from the tiny flakes has now been examined by a multidisciplinary team and Scientific Reports¹ has published the study.

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