FRANCE: Archaeologists say stone tools recently unearthed in Kenya are the oldest ever found, at least 700,000 years older than any discovered before.
The stone flake tools found along the shores of the African country’s Lake Turkana have been dated to 3.3 million years ago, they report, strong evidence that our earliest ancestors were making and using tools hundreds of thousands of years before the modern Homo lineage arose around 2.8 million years ago.
The area around Lake Turkana has yielded many fossils of early humans and their tools; a team headed by Sonia Harmand of Stony Brook University in New York made the latest discovery.
Previously, the oldest stone tools known had been 2.6-milion-year-old items found in Ethiopia.
Then, in 2010, researchers also working in Ethiopia announced the discovery of animal bones from 3.4 million years ago bearing cut marks, suggesting humans made the cuts using stone tools.
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