This is excellent news. we have cutting stones likely also gathered elsewhere and strata related bones with cut marks. Why this is important is that global hominids likely shared this and we can stop questioning automatically any such cutting stones otherwise out of place.
Our ancesters made these easily and it served them to butcher and share all forms of food.
It is likely as important as ceramics. This was the swiss army knife of the stone age and plenty of rock types can be ginned up for use. Just walk a scree slope and not with bare feet. I actually notched deeply an army boot on that stuff.
Archaeologists find 3MILLION-year-old tools at site dubbed 'the cradle of humankind'
01-07-2025 • https://www.dailymail.co, By STACY LIBERATORE
Found in Kenya's Homa Peninsula, this region has produced clues about humanity's early beginnings such as other ancient tools and the remains of 'Lucy' - a pre-human relative that lived more than three million years ago.
The team uncovered three-million-year-old flakes, or small knives, created by hominins, the first pre-human species to walk on two legs, who hammered one stone against another to create sharp edges.
Researchers at the City University of New York said the sharpened rock allowed them to peel and cut fruits and vegetables and slice the flesh of hippos.
The tools are known as the Oldowan tool kit, which previously only spanned from 1.7 million years to 2.9 million years ago.
Lead archaeologist Tom Plummer suggested that the tools found paved the way for everything that followed.
'In terms of technology, I think the Oldowan technology is the most important technological innovation that ever happened in human history,' Plummer told CBS News.
'It allowed hominins to access a whole array of foods that they never had access to before, fueling body and brain size increases.'
The new diet would have sparked a 'feedback loop' that led to more sophisticated beings and advanced technologies, Plummer said.
While uncovering the tools was an amazing discovery for Plummer and his team, finding cut marks on nearby animal bones confirmed butchery was done.
The team uncovered ancient hippo bones at the site, which showed that technology existed nearly three million years ago, CBS News reported.
The site is located on the peninsula called Nyanga, which experts said could help frame humans' existence on Earth.
Rick Potts, the director of the Smithsonian's human origins program and the leader of research on the peninsula, said: 'We are the last biped standing, as I call it.
'All of those other ways of life became extinct. And so that gives us a lot to think about, and it draws attention to the fragility of life, even in our own journey through time.'
Found in Kenya's Homa Peninsula, this region has produced clues about humanity's early beginnings such as other ancient tools and the remains of 'Lucy' - a pre-human relative that lived more than three million years ago.
The team uncovered three-million-year-old flakes, or small knives, created by hominins, the first pre-human species to walk on two legs, who hammered one stone against another to create sharp edges.
Researchers at the City University of New York said the sharpened rock allowed them to peel and cut fruits and vegetables and slice the flesh of hippos.
The tools are known as the Oldowan tool kit, which previously only spanned from 1.7 million years to 2.9 million years ago.
Lead archaeologist Tom Plummer suggested that the tools found paved the way for everything that followed.
'In terms of technology, I think the Oldowan technology is the most important technological innovation that ever happened in human history,' Plummer told CBS News.
'It allowed hominins to access a whole array of foods that they never had access to before, fueling body and brain size increases.'
The new diet would have sparked a 'feedback loop' that led to more sophisticated beings and advanced technologies, Plummer said.
While uncovering the tools was an amazing discovery for Plummer and his team, finding cut marks on nearby animal bones confirmed butchery was done.
The team uncovered ancient hippo bones at the site, which showed that technology existed nearly three million years ago, CBS News reported.
The site is located on the peninsula called Nyanga, which experts said could help frame humans' existence on Earth.
Rick Potts, the director of the Smithsonian's human origins program and the leader of research on the peninsula, said: 'We are the last biped standing, as I call it.
'All of those other ways of life became extinct. And so that gives us a lot to think about, and it draws attention to the fragility of life, even in our own journey through time.'
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