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Published online 4 May 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000504-11
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Beach tools
The first things that humans did after they evolved was to head for the beach. Henry Gee reports.
Stone tools mixed in with fossil corals and oyster shells are a sign that the human romance with the seaside is as old as the species itself. Robert C. Walter of the Centro de Investigación Cientifica de Educación Superior (CICESE) in Ensenada, Mexico, and colleagues have found stone tools laid down 125,000 years ago on what were once beaches and coral reefs on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea in East Africa.
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