Other recent discoveries in China suggest that bone tools-used, for example, to re-sharpen stone axes-may be as much as 115,000 years old. Recent discoveries in Kenya suggest that the earliest stone tools may be as much as 3.3 million years old. It assumes that only adult males made and used stone tools, and that stones were the only materials in these ancient people’s everyday tool kits.īoth assumptions are at best questionable at worst, they are simply wrong.įirst, let’s tackle the stereotype about raw materials. When most members of the general public think of the Stone Age, they probably envision an adult male hominin wielding a stone tool.
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