<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ba51e48e-bf1b-483f-9154-32355168154d/151B5408-A96A-4088-A06E-463DEF665E8A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain" href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencenews.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain"><DIV class="content_summary print">Findings suggest that tool advance occurred by 900,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sciencenews.org/img/69EFF93D-2E80-46DB-8EA9-258BCFD40697" alt="access" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain"><P>Europe’s Stone Age has taken an edgy turn. A new analysis finds that human ancestors living in what is now Spain fashioned double-edged stone cutting tools as early as 900,000 years ago, almost twice as long ago as previous estimates for this technological achievement in Europe.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain"><P>If confirmed, the new dates support the idea that the manufacture and use of teardrop-shaped stone implements, known as hand axes, spread rapidly from Africa into Europe and Asia beginning roughly 1 million years ago, say geologist Gary Scott and paleontologist Luis Gibert, both of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sciencenews.org/img/E1A57C78-C80B-475D-9903-9BA1A5D03B5E" alt="access" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_stone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain"><DIV class="inset_text print"><DIV class="embiggen"><A href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/access/id/46963/title/bb_axes.jpg">Enlarge</A><IMG src="http://www.sciencenews.org/includes/com.confluentforms.codefluent.php/images/icons/grayscale-small/magnify.gif" class="icon" alt="magnify" /></DIV><SPAN class="print">First tool </SPAN><SPAN class="description print">Researchers say that a stone hand ax, shown here from both sides, that was previously found in a Spanish rock shelter dates to 900,000 years ago, making it the oldest such implement in Europe. </SPAN><SPAN class="credit print">Michael Walker</SPAN></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/151B5408-A96A-4088-A06E-463DEF665E8A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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