World's Oldest Stone Tools Found, Predate Homo Genus By 500,000 Years

io9 ^ | 15 April 2015 | Robbie Gonzalez

[Fractal Trader]

ping

[Tijeras_Slim]

Homo Genus

That Alan Turning guy, right? He was pretty smart.

[thackney]

I found your hammer, sorry I had lost it....

[Genoa]

How could we all be descended from a homo genus?

[knarf]

dinosaur dandruff .... nothing to see here ...

But they sure are trying to cram a german airplane in your head !

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea, everyone knows that homos can’t reproduce.

[DoughtyOne]

I may be wrong, but I will not be surprised to see these dates revised at some point. I’m not as confident about their dating techniques as the scientific community is today.

I’m going on nothing but my gut instincts here, so as I said, I could be wrong.

[Moonman62]

In 2010, researchers working in the Dikika region of Ethiopia reported evidence of “stone-tool-inflicted marks” on animal bones dating to somewhere in the range of 3.24- to 3.42-million years ago.

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Most scientific work contains error bars or a margin of error as the above sentence indicates.

[humblegunner]

S’alright, I got another one.

[DoughtyOne]

I appreciate that, and in doing so I think they address reasoned room for various time frames within the dating system they have confidence in now. I question if these millions may not become thousands at some point.

Other accepted theories have been proven to be completely wrong over time. Will the carbon dating suffer the same fate?

Perhaps not. I still think it may.

[AppyPappy]

“The famous ape-like creature known as Lucy “

She was a Kappa Delta at App. We just shared a bed together. Nothing happened.

[Don Corleone]

“As ancient astronaut theorists believe”.

[frithguild]

I met a German girl in England
Who was goin’ to school in France
Said we danced the Mississippi at an Alpha Cappa dance
It wasn’t me
Woo, it wasn’t me
Yeah, you must’ve met some other body,
No, no child it wasn’t me

[Red Badger]

evidence of "stone-tool-inflicted marks" on animal bones dating to somewhere in the range of 3.24- to 3.42-million years ago.

How do we know that they weren't just chipping away on some old bones they found to possibly use as a tool much more recently, like only a million years ago?.............

[muir_redwoods]

Many non-humans use tools, even crows use tools.

[central_va]

Homo erectus , tee hee

[central_va]

"Many non-humans use tools, even crows use tools."

[Tucker39]

And they can distinguish between marks left on bones by stone tools, as opposed to those made by carnivorous animals’ teeth exactly how?
“I think I detect the obnoxious odor of mendacity,” to quote Big Daddy Pollock in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.

[showme_the_Glory]

They were cordless.