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Early Hominids were skilled stone tool makers.


A 2.34 million year old site in Kenya has shown that early human species were skilled stone knappers. They chose their rocks carefully and discarded those which, after a couple of trial strikes, were unsuitable.

Full story here... http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18624944.200
jimit Posted by jimit
8th April 2005ce

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