The oldest stone tools discovered pre-date the earliest humans
According to research published in the journal Nature in 2015, the oldest stone tools discovered were found at a 3.3-million-year-old site in Kenya's West Turkana. Because these stone tools predate the Oldowan toolbox by 700,000 years, the authors called the discovery “a new beginning in the known archaeological record.” Archaeological excavations at the site, known […]