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Oldest Stone Tools Predate Previous Record Holder By 700,000 Years
derekmead writes: The oldest stone tools ever found have been discovered by scientists in Kenya who say they are 3.3m years old, making them by far the oldest such artifacts discovered. Predating the rise of humans' first ancestors in the Homo genus, the artifacts were found near Lake Turkana, Kenya. More than 100 primitive hammers, anvils and other stone tools have been found at the site. An in-depth analysis of the site, its contents, and its significance as a new benchmark in evolutionary history will be published in the May 21 issue of Nature.
Please have some respect, Slashdot predates similar websites by 700,000 years
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How does one tell the difference between a chunk of rock and a 3.3 million year old tool? Because they both look fucking indistinguishable to me: they're both just chunks of rock.
Clearly those anthropologists are totally misguided and would be most grateful for your help on this matter.
Look at the picture in TFA. It's a rock.
I wonder who's with Larry Ellison these days.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
They just saw it from a distance and declared: Tool!
That's what happened when I saw Dog-Cow's comment.
Yahoo had this story yesterday, and we hashed out all the problems people had with the details.
If you want good scientific reasoning and intellectual thought, go read the Yahoo News article and comment section.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
when a question is asked with the word "fucking" in it, I assume it was not asked in a genuine spirit of enquiry and I answered in sarcastically.
I used to think that, too.
My wife asked, "When you're fucking me, who do you think of?"
I didn't think she was serious, so I said, "The dog".
The divorce will be finalized next Tuesday.