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Early Humans Were Quarrying Stone in South Africa 220,000 Years Ago

A study in Nature Communications reports that human groups in South Africa were making repeated trips to obtain toolmaking stone as early as about 220,000 years ago. Led by researchers associated with the University of Tübingen, the work centers on Jojosi, an open-air site where ancient people appear to have visited again and again for…