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New finds from Ethiopia push tool use back by almost a million years; Fossils provide the first evidence that Lucy's species used stone tools to butcher meat. 1  ADDIS ABABA (August 11, 2010) â The evolutionary stories of the Swiss Army Knife and the Big Mac just got a lot longer.
1000 B.C.: First Metal Money and Coins. Bronze and Copper cowrie imitations were manufactured by China at the end of the Stone Age and could be considered some of the earliest forms of metal coins. Metal tool money, such as knife and spade monies, was also first used in China. These early metal monies developed into primitive versions of round coins. Chinese coins were made out of base metals, often containing holes so they could be put together like a chain.