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  2. Oldowan - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known Oldowan tools have been found at Nyayanga on the Homa Peninsula in Kenya and are dated to ~2.9 million years ago (Ma). [10] The Oldowan tools were associated with Paranthropus teeth and two butchered hippo skeletons. [10] Early Oldowan tools are also known from Gona in Ethiopia (near the Awash River), and are dated to about 2.6 ...

  3. Homo habilis - Wikipedia

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    Early hominins are typically reconstructed as having thick hair and marked sexual dimorphism with males much larger than females, though relative male and female size is not definitively known. H. habilis manufactured the Oldowan stone-tool industry and mainly used tools in butchering.

  4. Chellean Man - Wikipedia

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    Leakey named it "Chellean Man", in reference to the Oldowan tools found at the site, which were then referred to by the now-obsolete name Chellean.Heberer (1963) provisionally named a new species Homo leakeyi based on the specimen in honor of Leakey, [3] but most subsequent workers have regarded it as Homo ergaster, or as Homo erectus (H. ergaster is sometimes regarded as a subspecies of H ...

  5. Gona, Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    The brains of the hominins who used Oldowan stone tools were a lot smaller than the brains of modern humans. [9] There is debate about the Oldowan Industry's place in human culture's evolution. [9] [30] This debate features some of Gona's Oldowan assemblages as evidence and pulls from research on primate social behavior. [23] [9] [31] [32] [33]

  6. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    This list excludes tools and tool use attributed to non-hominin species. See Tool use by non-humans . Since there are far too many hominin tool sites to list on a single page, this page attempts to list the 6 or fewer top candidates for oldest tool site within each significant geographic area.

  7. Stone Age discovery fuels mystery of who made early tools

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    Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers.

  8. Outline of prehistoric technology - Wikipedia

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    Stone tool use – early human (hominid) use of stone tool technology, such as the hand axe, was similar to that of primates, which is found to be limited to the intelligence levels of modern children aged 3 to 5 years. Ancestors of homo sapiens (modern man) used stone tools as follows: Homo habilis ("handy man") – first "homo" species.

  9. Homo ergaster - Wikipedia

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    Acheulean tools differ from Oldowan tools in that the core forms of the tools were clearly deliberate. Whereas the shape of the core forms in Oldowan tools, which were probably used mostly as hammers to crack bones for marrow, appears to not have mattered much, the hand axes of the Acheulean culture demonstrate an intent to produce narrow and ...