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Recently, a team of researchers have taken a second look at the oddly shaped stone. Experts from Dartmouth and the University of Cambridge say the stone is likely the earliest artistic depiction of an Acheulean handaxe.
A new discovery from ancient times shows how advanced early human woodworking skills are. Humans have shown that in every period, they are innovative and notable for their crafts that turn everyday materials into sophisticated tools, with a recent discovery in Schoningen, Germany.
In the past, 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.
A recent study on archaeological findings in Kenya cast doubts on the initial assumption that direct relatives of human beings in the Homo lineage were the only tech-savvy creatures of the Stone Age.
