Object Details
- Age
- About 2.3 million years old
- Summary
- Early humans in East Africa used hammerstones to strike stone cores and produce sharp flakes. When these stone flakes were removed from this stone core from, it also created sharp edges. For more than 2 million years, early humans used these tools to cut, pound, crush, and access new foods—including meat and bone marrow from large animals.
- Date of discovery
- 1997
- Discovered by
- A team led by Hélène Roche and Mzalendo Kibunjia
- Site
- Lokalalei, Kenya
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Record ID
- dpo_3d_200108
