The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución humana (CENIEH) has participated in an experimental study published recently in the journal Archeological and Anthropological Sciences, on the possible uses of tools fashioned from basalts—volcanic rocks that are highly abundant—at the Olduvai Gorge sites in Tanzania. It is the first exhaustive analysis of the relationships between the petrological characteristics of this raw material and the formation of use-wear traces.
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Source: Phys.org