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Reading https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools, the criterion for “entered the Ston
by Someone 3y ago
Reading https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools https://www.livescience.com/which-animals-use-stone-tools, the criterion for “entered the Stone Age” weirdly seems to be having a “recognized archaeological record of stone tool use”.
Thats lie saying “it hasn’t happened if we don’t have it on video”.
- mr_toad 3y agoThat’s because you can find tools that have obviously been shaped (e.g. napped flint) in the geological record. Distinguishing between a rock that happened to be used as a tool from any other random rock in the strata would be much harder.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoInteresting, I was assuming that, unlike humans, they actually didn't have an actual tool industry (which only then would have qualified them for "Stone Age" in my book), but perhaps they have ?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomekwi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomekwi (Or at least for non-stone tools ?)