Oldest Stone Tool Found in Kenya

Archaeologist holding one of the oldest stone tool.

A recent discovery made by archaeologists suggest that textbooks may have to be rewritten. Allegedly the oldest stone tools were unburied in northwestern Kenya, that were made ancestors around 3.3 million years ago. Textbooks claim that previously the oldest tools unearthed in Ethiopia were 700,000 years younger, dating back 2.6 million years ago. These tools could imply two things; that human beings did emerge earlier than scientists believe, which is 2.8 million years ago, or apes brains were developing at that point to create advantaged sharp sophisticated tools. The older dated tools were larger and lighter, which archaeologists at Stony Brook University found odd and uncommon. Flakes, anvils and cores emerged around the area too.





One of the tools discovered.