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These are made using a technology known as Oldowan and is the first widespread stone tool-making method.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

Yet, according to researchers who recently analyzed famous cave paintings in France, we've known for a long time that Neanderthals are capable of tool-making, art, perhaps even music.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2023

Homo Erectus developed more advanced stone tool-making than had Australopithecus, and survived until about 200,000 years ago, by which time the earliest Homo sapiens – humans – had long since evolved alongside them.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

But it’s also possible that the discovery emerged simultaneously in Africa, Europe, and Asia, as hominins riffed on their standard stone tool-making strategies.

From The Verge • Jan. 31, 2018

Physiologically, there has been no significant improvement in our tool-making capacity over the last 30,000 years.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari