An example of an Oldowan tool.
But in reality, apes, otters, birds, octopuses, and many otheranimals use tools, too.
One style of early tools is known as Oldowan tools.
An example of an Oldowan tool. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
Across Europe and Asia, Lower Paleolithic creators utilized stone tools.
This period spanned about 1.7 million to 2.9 million years ago.
Yet this genre of stone tools are not even the oldest.
Lake Turkana, across Kenya and Ethiopia, where Lomekwi is on the west side. (Photo:Wikimedia Commons, Public domain)
About3.3 million years ago, a different species of ancient creature worked stone into useful shapes.
A contemporary of that species, theAustralopithecus afarensis, may also have created the tools.
This latter species includesLucy, the famous skeleton discovered in 1974.
Such differentiation would reduce competition.
Lake Turkana, across Kenya and Ethiopia, where Lomekwi is on the west side.
