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2.9-million-year-old artifacts suggest ancient, big-toothed hominins were making stone tools

SOTT – Sign Of The Times

By Isaac Schultz
Gizmodo
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:09 UTCTwo 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 stones, these tools made it possible for hominin species to survive in a hostile world.

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