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Early humans began crafting stone tools more than 3 million years ago by chipping off flakes to form shapes and sharp edges in a process known as knapping. There was previously no evidence that our ...

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Some of the tools in the Pleistocene Archaeology Lab of the Spanish National Research Council. (CSIC) "This discovery leads us to believe that early humans expanded significantly their technological ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?