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New discoveries in Kenya may be changing long-accepted paradigms on stone toolmaking.
The discoveries include evidence that Oldowan tools were used to cut and pound animal flesh far earlier than previously known.
The discovery of teeth from the muscular-jawed Paranthropus alongside these stone tools begs the question of whether it might have been that lineage rather than the Homo genus that was the architect of the earliest Oldowan stone tools.
According to new research led by researchers with the National Museums of Kenya, Liverpool John Moores University, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, early human ancestors used some of the oldest stone tools ever discovered to butcher hippos and pound plant material in Kenya around 2.9 million years ago.