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Bone, Stone, and Genome: Understanding Humanity's Deep Past
Tides of History
The Oldowan Style of Toolmaking
Early Australopithecines used crude tools, using one rock to break off sharp flakes from another. This ancient toolmaking tradition gives way to a more advanced style about 2.6 million years ago. Footprints belonging to Australopithecus afarensis have miraculously survived too. Those footprints suggest that Lucy's gates started with the heel and pushed off with the toe - more like a modern human than a chimpanzee.
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