Archaeologists amazingly uncover potential oldest tools in the world

The oldest tools known to man was created about to 3.4 million years ago. Recent findings stated that the tools found at the archaeological site, Lomekwi 3, in Kenya are even older than the tools believed to be the oldest, about 2.6 years older. The findings were presented at the annual Paleoanthropology Society meeting held April 14-15 this year in San Francisco, California.

span style="line-height: 15.8599996566772px;">MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) -  Sonia Harmand from the Stony Brook University, New York, wrote that this discovery marks the new beginning for the known archaeological record.

The tools were first discovered in 2011 as archaeologists were digging at the site in Lake Turkana, according to The Blaze. There, they found the stone artifacts that were intentionally flaked through knapping.

In the initial documentation, made by Michael Balter for the Science magazine, Harmand did not think the tools were made by the Homo sapiens but by earlier hominins like the australopithecines or Kenyanthropus.


"They took a wrong turn and stumbled upon another part of the area, called Lomekwi, near where Kenyanthropus had been found. The researchers spotted what Harmand called unmistakable stone tools on the surface of the sandy landscape and immediately launched a small excavation," wrote Balter in description of the lucky discovery.

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In his blog, an anthropology professor from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, John Hawkes, wrote that although he has still to see the study and examine the findings, he is positive that stone tools are made by earlier hominins and used by multiple lineages.

According to Balter, Alison Brooks from the George Washington University describes the findings as "very exciting," and added that "They could not have been created by natural forces... dating evidence is fairly solid."

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