the.com/oldowan stone flakes
the first time a hand hit a rock and made something sharper than nature intended.
means the earliest recognized stone tools, made by striking a core rock with a hammerstone to knock off sharp-edged flakes for cutting and scraping.
from named for olduvai gorge in tanzania, where louis and mary leakey found them in the 1930s, though the oldest known examples now trace to lomekwi, kenya, roughly 3.3 million years old, predating the genus homo itself.
older than homopredate genus homo by at least half a million years
techniquehard-hammer percussion, one strike could yield a razor edge
used forbutchering carcasses and cracking bones for marrow, not hunting
spanstayed basically unchanged in design for over a million years
for instance
lomekwi 3 — kenya, 3.3 million years old, oldest known stone tools on earth
olduvai gorge — tanzania site that gave the whole industry its name, 1930s discovery