EPISODE · Nov 6, 2025 · 3 MIN
Hand axe
from This is not a museum - audio stories from our favourite museums · host The Journey of Information
This quiet stone changed how we see East Asia.Shaped nearly 300,000 years ago, it revealed that early humans here made tools just like those in Africa and Europe, proving that the story of human beginnings was never one-directional.
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This quiet stone changed how we see East Asia.Shaped nearly 300,000 years ago, it revealed that early humans here made tools just like those in Africa and Europe, proving that the story of human beginnings was never one-directional.
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