For more than half a century, a core pillar of paleoanthropology was the "Man the Toolmaker" paradigm—the absolute conceptual link between the emergence of our genus, Homo, and the dawn of intentional stone tool technology. This milestone was traditionally anchored to the Oldowan Industrial Complex, which dates back to roughly 2.6 million years ago.However, the accidental discovery of Lomekwi 3 on the western shores of Lake Turkana, Kenya, shatt…
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