New Scientist’s Cover story (5 November 2024), features work by Karen Hardy, Director of the Powerful Plants project and other results from across the world, to suggest that plant technology is older than stone tools.  Combining archaeology, with ethnography and chimpanzee use of plant materials, a new Botanic Age is suggested in which the earliest raw materials are plants.

Before the Stone Age - Were the first tools made from plants not rocks

First published: 18 November 2024

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