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At the Namorotukunan Site, an international team of researchers uncovered one of the earliest and most enduring records of Oldowan stone toolmaking, dating between roughly 2.75 and 2.44 million years ago.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

These would equip workers specifically for local industries, with a particular emphasis on sectors such as renewables, nuclear, engineering, computing and modern toolmaking.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023

The crows live in complex social groups and may pass toolmaking techniques on to their offspring.

From Scientific American • Sep. 22, 2023

Such characteristics depended on factors like weather patterns and soil fertility, as well as the proximity of drinking water and toolmaking resources.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Not until more than two million years later do we meet the earliest evidence of toolmaking.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson