Human Tool Use

World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered in Kenya

Medicine & Technology Apr 19, 2015

Archaeologists believe they have found the oldest stone tools ever recorded in Africa, and they weren't used by any human from the genus Homo. The tools, dating back 3.3 million years, are proof that some of the earliest ancestors of humans used tools several hundred thousand years before the rise of the genus Homo.

Human Tool Use

World's Oldest Stone Tools Discovered in Kenya

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