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If you had Googled "oldest flint tools" you would have found directly that you are extremely off. > The oldest stone tools currently pre-date genus Homo, they
by boxed 6y ago
If you had Googled "oldest flint tools" you would have found directly that you are extremely off.
> The oldest stone tools currently pre-date genus Homo, they were found in Kenya (Lake Turkana) and date to 3.3 million years ago.
And that's just what current archeology/paleontology has been able to find so far. The find for the 3.3 million years was 700k years earlier than the previous record. It's not a stretch of the imagination to think we will find even older artifacts.
Source https://jigsawcambs.org/images/Flint_Tools_and_Flintknapping.pdf https://jigsawcambs.org/images/Flint_Tools_and_Flintknapping...
- agumonkey 6y agoAfter manipulating wood and metal (soldering) I became quite fascinated by how fragile everything is. And how some people aeons ago manage to make time to craft hunting tools with stones, wood and threads is astonishing. Let alone the mastery of using them. A weak spear or arrow has big impacts on your life.