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gus_massa on Dec 5, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Oldest Human DNA Yet Found Raises New Mysteries

Interesting technologies form ~1 million years ago (Homo erectus):

* stone hand-axe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acheulean

* fire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans

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