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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.
The find, which was announced in the journal Nature (Page on nature.com), beats out the previous record for the oldest tools: they are around 700,000 years older than any tools found previously, including the Oldowan tools mentioned by David. Above: a 3.3 million year old stone tool found in situ (from the BBC). However, strictly speaking, there may be even older evidence of hominid tool useâbones with tool cut marks on them, dated to about 3.4 million years ago.