The First Toolmakers
The Ancients
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The Different Types of Stone Tools
Archaeologists are always very keen to have their finds in what you call in situ so in the undisturbed earth layers they excavate it and there it is. Very often you can find pieces that are literally just sort of lit on the ground when they were produced, then after they've been excavated you can literally fit them back together again. So we have to distinguish from the very beginning when we talk about all of these sort of things between tool use and tool manufacturing. Before we return to Lomakwe and the tools that were found that are 3.3 million years old I think it might be good to have a quick sort of overview again historical overview of how our thinking
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