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Lethal weapons may have given early humans edge over Neanderthals

The stone blades would have allowed our ancestors to attack Neanderthals – and other humans – from a greater distance and with more devastating effect.
Discovery of sharpened stone blades up to 71,000 years old suggests humans leaving Africa were armed to the teeth
7 November 2012
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/07/lethal-weapons-early-humans-neanderthals [with comments]


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Early humans tooled up
Sophisticated bladelets suggest that humans passed on their technological skill down the generations
07 November 2012
http://www.nature.com/news/early-humans-tooled-up-1.11765 [with comments]

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Palaeoanthropology: Sharpening the mind
07 November 2012
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature11751.html


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Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech

Digging into the past. Researchers excavate a cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa (left). These miniature stone blades, which have been blunted on one side, would've been used to make arrows or other projectiles (right).
7 November 2012
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/early-humans-handed-down-toolmak.html [no comments yet]


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Stone-age humans began using lethal technology 71,000 years ago employing spears and arrows to triumph over Neanderthals

07 November 2012
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stoneage-humans-began-using-lethal-technology-71000-years-ago-employing-spears-and-arrows-to-triumph-over-neanderthals-8294599.html [with comments]


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