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Jennifer Walter

These Tool-Wielding Monkeys Shed Light on a Huge Evolutionary Mystery


The first tools made by our early Stone Age ancestors were simple, but monumental. Hammerstones, handaxes, and sharpened flakes were their implements of choice — all carved from rock and used for tasks like hunting and foraging.

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