TIL I was wrong about the bone tools at Olduvai, a 1.8 million year old hand axe is not the whole story | Archaeology Discoveries - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals
My uncle spent 30 years picking up rocks in the East African Rift and always said the same thing: the fancy tools get all the attention, but the worn down ones tell you who was actually doing the work. A 1.8 million year old hand axe sounds impressive until you realize somebody had to make the boring scraper first.