A Tale of Early Stone Tool Use By Paranthropus

A butchery site in Kenya that dates back 2.9 million years implies that humans may not have been the first to utilize stone tools.

A three million-year-old fossil and hundreds of stone implements were discovered during an archaeological dig in Kenya near Lake Victoria. Some of the first direct evidence that early hominins used stone tools to feast on huge animals may be found in these blades, which were discovered alongside teeth from our ancestors and the slaughtered bones of anci…