“Oldowan stone-knapping dates back to the Lower Paleolithic period in eastern Africa, and remained largely unchanged for 700,000 years...”
Imagine something, anything, nowadays going unchanged for 700,000 years.
Remote places in Indonesia, the Amazon jungle, and parts of Africa have stone age tribes.
I listened to an audio course on ancient Egypt and was astonished to learn that things didn’t progress much over a couple thousand years. They liked the way things were and conserved them.
The 700,000 years jumped out at me, too. Can you imagine no progress at all over that period?!
We get impatient if a new phone model isn’t introduced every 7 months.
Hey, it worked well enough. The finer work happened when different materials were discovered, meaning, the people wandered around and found it.