DAILY DOSE: Early Humans Planned Their Toolmaking Far Earlier Than Expected; Farming May Have Triggered a Burst of Human Evolution.

DAILY DOSE: Early Humans Planned Their Toolmaking Far Earlier Than Expected; Farming May Have Triggered a Burst of Human Evolution.

Early Humans Planned Their Toolmaking Far Earlier Than Expected: One of the week’s most intriguing archaeology stories argues that early humans were not simply wandering into stone-rich places and opportunistically knapping tools. Instead, researchers say favored rock sites became organized “assembly lines,” suggesting a degree of foresight and logistical planning that began roughly 50,000 years earlier than many archaeologists had assumed. That…