{"id":145025,"date":"2026-01-27T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145025"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:01:08","slug":"composite-tool-find-puts-china-at-centre-of-tech-revolution-up-to-160000-years-ago-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145025","title":{"rendered":"Composite tool find puts China at centre of tech revolution up to 160,000 years ago: paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina may have led a Stone Age technological race as early as 160,000 years ago, by crafting sophisticated stone tools for cutting, piercing and sawing, according to a new study.<br \/>\nAn international team of scientists said the discovery of hafted tools \u2013 the earliest evidence for composite tools in eastern Asia \u2013 had reshaped the understanding of human evolution in the region.<br \/>\nThey said the find showed that hominins in China were much more inventive and adaptable than previously thought,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3341421\/composite-tool-find-puts-china-centre-tech-revolution-160000-years-ago-paper?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina may have led a Stone Age technological race as early as 160,000 years ago, by crafting sophisticated stone tools for cutting, piercing and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}