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Oldest Stone Tools Ever Found Were Not Made by Human Hands, Study Suggests

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Archaeologists have revealed what could be the oldest stone tools ever found, and they think someone other than our closest Homo ancestors may have made them.

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News18 India

Stone Age Discovery Fuels Mystery of Who Made Early Tools

Scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers. But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at the Kenyan site belong to an extinct human cousin known as Paranthropus

1 year ago·India

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The Guardian

Discovery of 3m-year-old stone tools sparks prehistoric whodunnit

Presence of teeth from extinct hominin challenges view that only members of Homo genus used complex tools

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Hindu

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

A site in Kenya has yielded some of the oldest stone tools ever found — and fueled a mystery of who used them

1 year ago·India

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The Independent

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

A site in Kenya has yielded some of the oldest stone tools ever found — and fueled a mystery of who used them

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Associated Press News

Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers.

1 year ago·United States

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