Found at the Konso-Gardula site in Ethiopia:
Homo erectus, a possible direct ancestor of people today, crafted a surprisingly cutting-edge tool out of a hippo’s leg bone around 1.4 million years ago, researchers say…
Along with a variety of stone tools now recognized at several East African sites (SN: 3/4/20), the bone hand ax “suggests that Homo erectus technology was more sophisticated and versatile than we had thought,” Suwa says.
Bruce Bower, “This 1.4-million-year-old hand ax adds to Homo erectus’ known toolkit” at ScienceNews
For some reason, they keep evolving to be smarter when we do more research.
Oh boy it’s another discovery that supposedly says it’s more something then we thought and may suggest
They just need a monkey that they can connect the dots to us that’s why the animal continues to get smarter and smarter soon it’ll have all of these civilizations that we didn’t know of