Stone tools made 3.3mn years ago found in Kenya

Archaeologists on a dig in Kenya made an unexpected discovery – 3.3-million-year-old stone tools that could disprove the theory that the Homo genus was the first to use such tools. The makers of the tools remain a mystery.

 “We knew at the moment of discovery that they would be the oldest stone tools in the world,” “Once the geological analyses came back later that year that in fact they were older than 3 million years, we were even more astonished” researcher said.

 The tools were likely used for both flaking and pounding. The scientists behind the discovery believe that the tools could have been used for activities like busting open logs to get to insects and breaking nuts or tubers.

The new artifacts have blitzed the record for the oldest known stone tools by a whopping 700,000 years.

The long-standing belief that the Homo genus, which includes modern humans, was the first to use tools with sharp edges was further questioned by the discovery.

Source: RT

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