What was the first primate to use stone tools?

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Also, which was the first to hunt?

Answer 1

(Nov. 20, 1996) An international research team working in Hadar, Ethiopia, has discovered a 2.33 million- year-old fossil along with primitive stone tools, the oldest firmly dated association of stone tools with a fossil human ancestor. Some believe that Australopithecus afarensis was the common ancestor of both the Homo line and the rest of the Australopithecus line."There have been older stone tools found, some dating as far back as perhaps 2.5 million years, but these are the oldest tools found in association with an ancient fossil hominid. The fossil and stone tools were discovered on the surface of a barren hill near a dry stream bed at the Hadar site, in northern Ethiopia's Afar badlands. The age of the Hadar jaw and tools is 2.33 million years with an accuracy of plus or minus 70,000 years. Before this find, the oldest association between a hominid fossil and stone tools was roughly 1.85 million years old.

Answer 2

dont know but to figure out flint knapping it must have been a genius I mean to break a stone a realize its sharp enough to use for cutting and eventually move to use them to kill food. now I assume when everyone hears "stone tools" they're gonna think of a hammer stone that can be used in a crushing manner, but a chimp can figure that out. what impresses me is the first person to make something just a little more complicated than a hammer

Answer 3

The most famous tool-maker, was Homo hablis, circa 2.4 million years ago...Hablis means "handy man". He probably only wore a belt on which to carry his tools, and he was vegetarian...

Next was Homo ergaster 1.9 million years ago. He was omniverous, but may have only scavenged meat, rather than hunted it...

For certain, Homo erectus was a meat eater, who hunted and probably used stone tools. His remains were the first found "Out of Africa" (Georgia=Southern Russia), and was 1.5 million years old...

Answer 4

What's above is true. The oldest stone tools were found in Olduvai, but there is some contention about which hominin they are associated with. Big shot Louis Leakey claims they belonged to H. habilis (which he found) and this is supported by most anthropologists. However, another big shot, Tim White, claims that these tools belonged to Australopithecus garhi, which would make them the first stone tool users. Of course, A. garhi was found by White.