Anthropology

Gaugamela

(3,575 posts) Fri Dec 26, 2025, 06:25 PM Dec 2025

3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History

Language may have evolved far earlier than we thought.

Tool marks on animal bones date back over 3 million years – 800,000 years before our first ancestors even emerged.

Three million years ago, something intelligent was walking across Africa.
But it wasn't human. It didn’t have a human brain. Yet it left behind something remarkable...

So if intelligence existed before humans…what does that mean for how we view our history?

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3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History (Original Post) Gaugamela Dec 2025 OP

Humanity began long before humans. cachukis Dec 2025 #1

Crows with tiny brains compared to us use tools (twigs etc) to extract grubs from wood.. Smart little boogers. mitch96 Dec 2025 #2

cachukis

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1. Humanity began long before humans.

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Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:24 PM

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mitch96

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2. Crows with tiny brains compared to us use tools (twigs etc) to extract grubs from wood.. Smart little boogers.

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Fri Dec 26, 2025, 07:38 PM

Dec 2025

So this makes sense our 3 million year old ancestors would come up with rudimentary tools...
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