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Europe’s First Toolmakers Were Innovators, Not Imitators: 42,000-Year-Old Evidence Reshapes Human Prehistory
A groundbreaking study has revealed that Europe’s earliest modern humans developed their own stone tool technologies 42,000 years ago — independently of the Near East. Researchers from the University of Tübingen and the University of Arizona argue that these early toolmakers were innovators, not imitators, challenging the long-held view that technological advances in Europe were…