The engraved ochre and ostrich eggshell fragments provide a unique window into early symbolic traditions of Homo sapiens and how they evolved over a period of more than 30,000 years.
The presence of burned seeds, wood, and flint at the Acheulian site in Israel is suggestive of the control of fire by humans nearly 790,000 years ago. The distribution of the small burned flint fragments suggests that burning occurred in specific spots.
The article I picked out is about the oldest stone tools found. These are interpreted as evidence of an independent archaeological culture, suggested as Lomekwian.
Lomekwi is the name for a group of paleoanthropological and archaeological sites in Kenya. The article describes the methods used by the scientists, such as carbon isotope analysis, stone tool scanning and other paleomagnetic analyzes. The artifacts found from different sites are measured and compared.