Archaeologists have found 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania. “This finding has pushed back systematic bone tool production by more than a million years and challenges previous assumptions about the technological capability of early hominins.”
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That's got to be an 'everything we thought we knew is wrong' moment. It's just great that discoveries like this are still out there to be made, and probably lots of them.
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