A Large Stone Tool Recovered from Sediments in the Ledi-Geraru Region of Ethiopia (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

A Large Stone Tool Recovered from Sediments in the Ledi-Geraru Region of Ethiopia

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A large stone tool recovered from sediments in the Ledi-Geraru region of Ethiopia. This sharp edged tool is evidence of early humans making sharp tools around the time that the earliest members of the genus Homo appeared in Ethiopia.

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Image courtesy of David Braun.

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