220,000 years ago, early humans in South Africa were making dedicated quarrying trips — not just picking up stone on the way to something else. The Jojosi site rewrites the timeline of deliberate resource planning. #Paleoanthropology #MiddleStoneAge #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-stone-seekers-of-jojosi
The Stone Seekers of Jojosi

A site in South Africa's grasslands reveals that Homo sapiens were making dedicated quarrying expeditions 220,000 years ago — far earlier than the field assumed possible

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