Posts Tagged ‘stone tools’

Oldest-known stone tools pre-date Homo

Enlarge Tool unearthed at excavation site. Credit: MPK-WTAP Scientists working in the desert badlands of northwestern Kenya have found stone tools dating back 3.3 million years, long before the advent of modern humans, and by far the oldest such artifacts yet discovered. The tools, whose makers may or may not have been some sort of […]

Archeologists in Kenya unearth oldest stone tools ever found

     A recently unearthed stone tool kit consisting of hammer stones, anvils, worked cobblestones and other items dates to 3.3 million years ago, predating our genus Homo by over half a million years, according to a new study. The items, described in the latest issue of the journal Nature, are now the oldest stone tools […]

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