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Bloody Stone Tools Tell Hominids' Tales


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Two million-year-old blood and fat on stone tools found in South Africa are giving clues about what hominids ate and how they lived, says an Australian researcher. Molecular archaeologist, Dr Tom Loy of the University of Queensland, reported his analysis of biological residues found on quartz stone tools at a recent ancient biomolecules conference in Brisbane. "I looked at them and there was blood everywhere," Loy said of the tools, which are among the oldest of their kind, and came from the Sterkfontein caves 60 kilometres northwest of Johannesburg.

 

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