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"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Archaeologists have identified a 500,000-year-old hammer made from elephant bone as the oldest tool of its kind ever found in Europe. The rare discovery sheds new light on the technological abilities ...