Bone Tool Crafting Reaches Peak Complexity

Finely-worked bone harpoons, fish hooks, and needles found in African sites show mastery of materials and design optimization unknown to earlier hominins.

When74000 BCE

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In archaeology, bone tools have been documented from the advent of Homo sapiens and are also known from Homo neanderthalensis contexts or even earlier. Bone has been used for making tools by virtually all hunter-gatherer societies, even when other materials were readily available.

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