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Portal R7
- Publicado em 12 de novembro de 2025
Uma recente descoberta no noroeste do Quênia trouxe novo entendimento sobre a evolução tecnológica dos primeiros hominídeos. Ferramentas com cerca de 2,7 milhões de anos , encontradas no sítio arqueológico de Namorotukan , indicam que nossos ancestrais já possuíam habilidades refinadas de corte e uma forma primitiva de tradição técnica , muito antes do surgimento do Homo sapiens.
Publicada na revista [...]
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Uma recente descoberta no noroeste do Quênia trouxe novo entendimento sobre a evolução tecnológica dos primeiros hominídeos. Ferramentas com cerca de 2,7 milhões de anos, encontradas no sítio arqueológico de Namorotukan, indicam que nossos ancestrais já possuíam habilidades refinadas de corte e uma forma primitiva de tradição técnica, muito antes do surgimento do Homo sapiens.
Publicada na revista [...]
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The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species
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Near the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, there is a hill called Namorotukunan. A river once flowed past it, but it has long since dried up. The undulating [...]
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Un estudio internacional publicado en la revista Nature Communications, con participación del Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), con sede en Burgos, ha revelado un conjunto de herramientas líticas en el yacimiento de Namorotukunan, en la cuenca del lago Turkana (Kenia), con una cronología de entre 2.75 y 2.44 millones de años. Este hallazgo documenta una de las presencias más antiguas y prolongadas de [...]
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Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at an archaeological site called Namorotukunan used stone tools continuously for 300,000 years. Evidence previously suggested that early human tool use was sporadic: randomly developed and quickly forgotten. The Namorotukunan find is the first to show that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.
According to Prof David Braun, of George Washington University, in Washington DC, who led [...]
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Ammon News : Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at an archaeological site called Namorotukunan used stone tools continuously for 300,000 years.
Evidence previously suggested that early human tool use was sporadic: randomly developed and quickly forgotten.
The Namorotukunan find is the first to show that the technology was passed down through thousands of generations.
According to Prof David Braun, of George Washington University, in [...]
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Imagine early humans crouched beside a riverbank nearly three million years ago, striking stones together to make sharp stone tools.
Around them, the world was in turmoil: rivers shifted course, fires swept through dry grasslands and long droughts turned the once green valleys into deserts.
Yet generation after generation, they kept crafting tools from stone, relying on skill, memory and shared knowledge to survive.
That persistence has now come to light in a remarkable discovery from [...]
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AOL (EUA)
- Publicado em 10 de novembro de 2025
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Paleolithic tools found at the Namorotukunan site in Kenya suggest that early Homo species kept their technology going even through natural disasters.
Starting about 2.7 million years ago, this region went from a humid floodplain to an unforgivingly arid expanse.
The rock strata from which these tools were excavated [...]
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The very first humans millions of years ago may have been inventors, according to a discovery in northwest Kenya.
Researchers have found that the primitive humans who lived 2.75 million years ago at an archaeological site called Namorotukunan used stone tools continuously for 300,000 years.
Evidence previously suggested that early human tool use was sporadic: randomly developed and quickly forgotten.
The Namorotukunan find is the first to show that the technology was passed down [...]
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Roughly 2.75 million years ago, early humans of Kenya’s Turkana Basin lived in a harsh and unpredictable world. The landscape repeatedly changed with periods of drought, shifting rivers, and extensive fires. Yet despite these upheavals, a newly published study in Nature Communications shows that these ancient toolmakers maintained a remarkably stable technological tradition for nearly 300,000 years.
At the heart of this discovery is the Namorotukunan site, situated in the Koobi Fora [...]
