`Lucy' species used stone tools, fossil study says
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 12:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Two ancient animal bones from Ethiopia show signs of butchering by human ancestors, moving back the earliest evidence for the use of stone tools by about 800,000 years, researchers say.
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