re: #39 Justanotherhuman

Weep away, Creationists.

Stone Tools From Kenya Are Oldest Yet Discovered

nytimes.com

One morning in July 2011, while exploring arid badlands near the western shore of Lake Turkana in Kenya, a team of archaeologists took a wrong turn and made a big discovery about early human technology: Our hominin ancestors were making stone tools 3.3 million years ago, some 700,000 years earlier than previously thought.

The findings promise to extend knowledge of the first toolmakers even deeper in time, probably before the emergence of the genus Homo, once considered the first to gain an evolutionary edge through stone technology. More

There is considerable debate over if they were made by Homo or by Australopithecus - if the latter they would be the first non Homo made stone tools known.