Bone tool use in termite foraging by early hominids and its impact on our understanding of early hominid behaviour

Francesco d’Errico · Lucinda Backwell · Lee R. Berger

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3that certain fossil bone fragments found at the Swartkrans and Sterkfontein sites were modified by early hominids. These new studies have also ex tended earlier research to the potential use of these artefacts, and suggest that the unusual tip modification found on most specimens is not from digging for roots, bulbs and tubers as was previously suggested. 3 Rather, recent re

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