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Our Ancestors Crafted Hand Axes From Cold Lava, Tool Factory Unearthed in Ethiopia Depicts Their Advancement

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Archaeologists at the Sapienza University of Rome found evidence of the earliest obsidian handaxe knapping workshop.

The tools were made from cooled-down lava called volcanic glass and were found at a workshop site in Ethiopia .

Obsidian was an igneous rock that had a glassy form and was produced during the rapid cooling of volcanic lava .

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