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The episode discusses the adoption of microlithic tools by people in Africa during the Last Glacial Maximum.

25,000 years ago ... Right at the peak of the Last Ice Age, most people living on the African continent finally embraced microlithic tools, an innovation that had been around for tens of thousands of years. Support the show

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