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Carved giant sloth bones may have been worn as personal ornaments

Early humans made jewellery from giant sloth bones

11 July 2023

The bones were shaped by people using stone tools before they were fossilised, adding new evidence for humans’ arrival in the Americas before the end of the last glacial period
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Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

12 April 2023

A study of an ancient bone from Spain with a strange pattern of notches hints that it was used by early Homo sapiens in Europe as a punch board for making holes in leather
DJ0W3Y The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Orangutans can learn how to use stone tools as hammers and knives

16 February 2022

Captive orangutans that had never seen stone tools could work out how to use them to hit or cut things – but they couldn’t get the hang of making them

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