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First Use of Tools Pushed Back a Million Years

Posted August 12, 2010 8:00 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Human ancestors were using stone tools to carve meat from the bone of wild animals nearly a million years earlier than thought, according to a recently unveiled study. Two mammal bones found in Ethiopia's Afar region with chips missing that could only have been removed by sharp-edged tools are about 3.4 million years old, said the study, published in Nature.

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Re: First Use of Tools Pushed Back a Million Years

08/12/2010 8:51 AM

And if they keep on digging, they're going even further into past. I'm surprised they haven't claimed butchery as the most ancient human activity (over prostitution).

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Re: First Use of Tools Pushed Back a Million Years

08/12/2010 10:54 AM

Cutting & hammering tools? Rubbish. The tool which had the biggest impact in our evolution was the toothbrush. Think not? Just try finding a mate without using one.

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08/12/2010 10:17 PM

Ah yes. What's really fun is when they push it back to other animals and birds. Using tools was once considered to be definitive of humans, but in fact others also do with tools.

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