Homo erectus hand ax found in East Africa

Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 07:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A team of researchers from Japan, Hong Kong and Ethiopia has found a hand ax that they believe was made by a possibly direct human ancestor in what is now modern Ethiopia. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes finding the hand ax, their study of it and what they believe it represents.

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