2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1997-01-23

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Geology, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/385333A0PMID 9002516
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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