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A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 years ago. These newly discovered stone tools were embedded in a ...

The adoption of tools heralded the dawn of technology, and the oldest-known stone tools date to at least 3.3 million years ago. There have been examples of sporadic use of tools made from bone ...

Not only was stone tool technology still considered unique to Homo, but also, at an age of 3.2 million years, Lucy was 1.5 million years older than the earliest stone tools known at the time.

Stone tools from this period are thought to have been created by Homo erectus, an extinct species that resembled modern humans, who lived 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago.

The Stone of Twelve Angles is located in a wall that once made up the Inca Roca palace, but now houses the archbishop’s palace and an art museum, Agence France-Presse reports.

One type, known as a hand ax, is a large, teardrop-shaped stone with a double-sided edge. Hominins also made cleavers and scrapers from bone. These tools — known as Acheulean technology ...