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0671-1011-01 | Prehistoric Stone Tools | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prehistoric man started making stone tools in Africa some 2.6 million years ago. This major breakthrough, mostly considered as the first technological revolution, was the starting point of human culture and technology. We will study the characteristics of the Paleolithic and Neolithic tool production technologies of the prehistoric groups living in the Near East and beyond and focus on the correlation between biological and cultural evolution that led to our modern civilization.