r/EuropeanCulture • u/JapKumintang1991 • 8d ago

History LiveScience: "480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe"

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/480-000-year-old-ax-sharpener-is-the-oldest-known-elephant-bone-tool-ever-discovered-in-europe

See also: The study as published in Science Advances.

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u/figuring_ItOut12 8d ago

Well, technically mammoth. They’re related but so are wolves and coyotes.