Sunday, April 19, 2015

Ancient tools created the monkey and not a “handy man” – Club of industrial journalism

Christina Slot

During excavations in Kenya, archaeologists discovered an ancient tools. The results showed that they were his to Homo habilis and Australopithecus used them.

The archaeologists had found biochemical analysis tools, and then concluded that their creator could be the famous Lucy, representative Australopithecus afarensis – ancient species living on earth more than four million years ago.

Before the discovery of this finding was thought that the first tools were made of stone about two and a half million years. It is dated to the period of the first archaeological finds in Ethiopia.

However, chet later, namely in 2010 in the area Dikika scientists have found several dozen animal bones that had specific slot. This finding has led to much discussion about their appearances. Scientific opinion was divided into two groups – some have argued that the furrows were obtained due to injuries or animal attacks, while others have argued that this is the work of human hands – the first attempt to create a work tool.

Evidence that our ancestors with stones left grooves on the bones of animals, became a habitat Kenyanthropus, who lived more than three million years ago. On the shores of Turkana, archaeologists have found a lot of items that are used to make instruments of labor. Age tools found is three and a half million years.

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