Carved bones found in Africa show Stone Age began a million years earlier
(NEWSER) - It turns out that human ape Australopithecus afarensis Lucy likely used some kind of stone knife to eat meat 800,000 years earlier than previously thought, which has suddenly cast human history in a new light. The discovery of fossil animal bones showing evidence of being butchered 3.4 million years ago means the Stone Age began nearly a million years earlier than now calculated. "This find will force us to revise our text books on human evolution, since it pushes the evidence for tool use and meat eating in our family back by nearly a million years," said Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged of the California Academy of Sciences. More»
