Massive, 1.2 million-year-old tool workshop in Ethiopia made by 'clever' group of unknown human relatives

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An unknown group of hominins crafted more than 500 obsidian hand axes more than 1.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

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[BicycleBob]

Your illustration is ill-informed. Flint workers protect their skin, and that of others nearby.

 

[Snorrie]

Robert Ardrey's book "African Genesis" posits that A. Africanus was adept at "bashing" both animals and fellow hominins with "pick-up" and constructed tools. So, it seems reasonable that stone tool manufacture was an ongoing effort 1.2 meg yo. One wonders how would a stone tool(s) be "priced"/valued in a bargain/trade culture? Two hand axes and four knives for a leg of Antilope?

 

[littoral.homo]

An unknown group of hominins crafted more than 500 obsidian hand axes more than 1.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.

Your illustration is ill-informed. Flint workers protect their skin, and that of others nearby.

Very interesting article, but yes, irrealistic illustration.
Sea-otters use stone tools: that is very likely also the origin of Homo's stone tools, see my book "De Evolutie van de Mens" (Acad.Uitg. Eburon 2022 Utrecht NL), or google e.g. "coastal dispersal Pleistocene Homo": archaic Homo had a lot of shellfish in their diet, cf. brain enlargement (DHA), voluntary breathing, island colonizations, pachyosteosclerotic skeleton (shallow diving), H.erectus' stone engravings (google "Joordens Munro") etc.