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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Stone Age Tools. | Oct 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Tools and Materials. | Nov 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CSB and SJU Digital Commons - Tools of the Geology Trade and Their Origin (PDF). | Oct 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Toronto - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - Measuring Tools and Processes (PDF). | Dec 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Blades of Destiny: The Ancient Tools And Weapons That Crafted History. | Apr 10, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - Human Evolution: The Origin of Tool Use. | Feb 27, 2023 | ||
| Time difference between oldest tools and oldest specimen of the genus Homo changed to "almost 1 million years." | Jun 22, 2016 | ||
| Text describing the start of Neolithic changed to "between 10,000 and 8,000 BCE." |
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Jun 22, 2016 | |
| Cross-references added. | Nov 16, 2015 | ||
| Emergence of Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) changed to "between 300,000 and 200,000" years ago; emergence of Cro-Magnons (H. sapiens) changed to "between 45,000 and 30,000" years ago. |
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Nov 16, 2015 | |
| Cross-references added. | May 22, 2015 | ||
| Text added describing the significance of 3.3-million-year-old tools found at the Lomekwi 3 site in Kenya. | May 22, 2015 | ||
| Media added. | Aug 14, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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