Archaeological mystery: Researchers discover tools that predate the first humans
- This incredible discovery pushes the previously known date of handheld tools back by at least 700,000 years
- The 3.3 million-year-old tools were found in north-west Kenya
A group of American paleontologists discovered a set of carved tools at an archaeological site belonging to the Pliocene, more than 3.3 million years ago.
Since early hominids, Homo habilis, appeared hundreds of years later, the discovery is a disturbing enigma: and researchers ask who made these tools?
The discovery, took place at the archaeological site of Lomekwi 3, Kenya and according to researchers, it could revolutionize archeology and force history to be rewritten.
This discovery was added to a list of other mysterious discoveries that according to
mainstream archaeology, are not possible.
Among the nearly 150 tools found at the archaeological site are hammers, anvils and carved stones that could have been used millions of years ago to open and crack nuts or tubers, and carve the trunks of fallen trees to get insects for food.