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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Keys

Technological secrets from 300,000 BC: How one stick revealed early humans were more skilled than we thought

New archaeological research has revealed that now long-extinct pre-modern species of humans were much more technologically skilled than previously thought.

Investigations led by a University of Reading archaeologist are showing that thousands of years before our species, <em>Homo sapiens</em>, existed, a now long-vanished early human species had developed sophisticated woodworking techniques.

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