Editing Stone tool (section)

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;Kenya
Stone tools found from 2011 to 2014 at the [[Lomekwi]] archeology site near [[Lake Turkana]] in Kenya, are dated to be 3.3 million years old, and predate the genus ''Homo'' by about one million years.<ref name="3.3-million-year-old stone tools fr">{{cite journal |last1=Harmand |first1=Sonia |last2=Lewis |first2=Jason E. |last3=Feibel |first3=Craig S. |last4=Lepre |first4=Christopher J. |last5=Prat |first5=Sandrine |last6=Lenoble |first6=Arnaud |last7=Boës |first7=Xavier |last8=Quinn |first8=Rhonda L. |last9=Brenet |first9=Michel |last10=Arroyo |first10=Adrian |last11=Taylor |first11=Nicholas |last12=Clément |first12=Sophie |last13=Daver |first13=Guillaume |last14=Brugal |first14=Jean-Philip |last15=Leakey |first15=Louise |last16=Mortlock |first16=Richard A. |last17=Wright |first17=James D. |last18=Lokorodi |first18=Sammy |last19=Kirwa |first19=Christopher |last20=Kent |first20=Dennis V. |last21=Roche |first21=Hélène |title=3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya |journal=Nature |date=20 May 2015 |volume=521 |issue=7552 |pages=310–315 |doi=10.1038/nature14464 |pmid=25993961 |bibcode=2015Natur.521..310H |s2cid=1207285 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Foley |first1=R. A. |last2=Mirazón Lahr |first2=M. |title=The evolution of the diversity of cultures |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |date=12 April 2011 |volume=366 |issue=1567 |pages=1080–1089 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2010.0370 |pmid=21357230 |pmc=3049104 }}</ref> The oldest known ''Homo'' fossil is about 2.4–2.3 million years old compared to the 3.3 million year old stone tools.<ref name='Morelle'>{{cite news |last=Morelle |first=Rebecca |author-link=Rebecca Morelle |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177 |title=Oldest stone tools pre-date earliest humans |work=BBC News |date=20 May 2015 |access-date=2016-01-03 }}</ref>  The stone tools may have been made by ''[[Australopithecus afarensis]]'', the species whose best fossil example is [[Lucy (Australopithecus)|Lucy]], which inhabited East Africa at the same time as the date of the oldest stone tools, a yet unidentified species, or by [[Kenyanthropus|''Kenyanthropus platyops'']] (a 3.2 to 3.5-million-year-old [[Pliocene]] hominin fossil discovered in 1999).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Drake |first1=Nadia |author-link=Nadia Drake |title=Wrong Turn Leads to Discovery of Oldest Stone Tools |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/05/150520-oldest-stone-tools-discovery-harmand-archaeology/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807191741/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/05/150520-oldest-stone-tools-discovery-harmand-archaeology/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |work=National Geographic News |date=20 May 2015 }}</ref><ref name="3.3-million-year-old stone tools fr"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Thompson |first1=Helen |title=The Oldest Stone Tools Yet Discovered Are Unearthed in Kenya |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/oldest-known-stone-tools-unearthed-kenya-180955341/ |work=Smithsonian Magazine |date=May 20, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilford |first1=John Noble |title=Stone Tools From Kenya Are Oldest Yet Discovered |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/science/stone-tools-from-kenya-are-oldest-yet-discovered.html |work=The New York Times |date=20 May 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Oldest Known Stone Tools Discovered: 3.3 Million Years Old |url=https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/0000014d-720b-d248-a94f-7b8bdb7a0000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301225614/https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/0000014d-720b-d248-a94f-7b8bdb7a0000 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 1, 2020 |date=May 20, 2015 }}</ref> Dating of the tools was done by dating volcanic ash layers in which the tools were found and dating the magnetic signature (pointing north or south due to reversal of the magnetic poles)  of the rock at the site.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Zastrow |first1=Mark |title=How a disparate team found the world's oldest stone tools |url=https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/how-a-disparate-team-found-the-worlds-oldest-tools |website=Nature Index |date=1 April 2016 }}</ref>

;Ethiopia
Grooved, cut and fractured animal bone fossils, made by using stone tools, were found in [[Dikika]], [[Ethiopia]] near (200 yards) the remains of [[Selam (Australopithecus)|Selam]], a young ''[[Australopithecus afarensis]]'' girl who lived about 3.3 million years ago.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McPherron |first1=Shannon P. |last2=Alemseged |first2=Zeresenay |last3=Marean |first3=Curtis W. |last4=Wynn |first4=Jonathan G. |last5=Reed |first5=Denné |last6=Geraads |first6=Denis |last7=Bobe |first7=René |last8=Béarat |first8=Hamdallah A. |title=Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia |journal=Nature |date=August 2010 |volume=466 |issue=7308 |pages=857–860 |doi=10.1038/nature09248 |pmid=20703305 |bibcode=2010Natur.466..857M |s2cid=4356816}}
*{{cite press release |date=August 11, 2010 |title=Oldest evidence of stone tool use and meat-eating among human ancestors discovered: Lucy's species butchered meat |website=ScienceDaily |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100811135039.htm}}</ref>