Unearthed 3m-year-old stone tools raise questions about origin
Al Mayadeen English
3 min readThe discovery of teeth on extinct hominin challenges the predisposition that only the Homo genus created and used complex tools of ancient technology.
photograph shows the Nyayanga site on the Homa Peninsula of Lake Victoria in southwestern Kenya, where hundreds of stone tools dating to roughly 2.9 million years ago were found. (Reuters)
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