TheJenHOLY SHIT Y'ALL!
Scientists have found an obsidian tool making "workshop" which dates to 1.2 MILLION YEARS AGO in Ethiopia.
This pushes this type of tool making back 500,000 years.
WOOOOOOOOOOOW
Rupert Reynolds@JenWojcik I wish Prof. Jacob Bronowski could be alive to read this.
In The Ascent Of Man he suggested, in effect, that the cradle of mankind was in Ethiopia, perhaps near the river Omo. He would have been thrilled to see new evidence.