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Researchers from the City University of New York believe that an early evolutionary relative called Paranthropus used the newly-discovered tools to butcher meat 300,000 years before humans.
Other branches of early humans, not just ancestors of Homo Sapiens, used them to cut and crush food.
To put the age of these tools into perspective, our species Homo sapiens did not appear until roughly 300,000 years ago
Two hippo butchery sites and the largest hominin tooth ever found may change the story of the 'Oldowan toolkit.' Oldowan tools are some of the oldest known in the archaeological record; made of conveniently shaped rocks or crafted from knapped...
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. But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at the Kenyan site belong to an extinct human cousin known…