I thought that we have known that the Neanderthals made tools for over 100 years now. In fact hadn’t the later Homo Erectus types developed a few primitive tools?
Uh-oh, “Homo Erectus” always brings out the puns in people. You know how I dislike puns. ;’) If Homo Erectus had discovered Uranus, well, there’d be a whole subforum for it on FR.
Some sites with tools (Flores) and post holes (showing construction of some kind of permanent structure, in China) dating to about 800K ago have been attributed to Erectus, mainly because that’s who seems to have been the only one around at that time. :’)