Stone tools. Our ancestors made them, some people still make them, and many species of extinct humans made them too. For more than three million years, fractured pieces of hard rock provided past people with a means to extract their livelihood from the environment.
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Citation
Mackay, A., Will, M. & Phillips, N. (2015). What stone tools found in southern tip of Africa tell us about the human story. The Conversation, 1 July 1-3.