Enjoy California at our newly renovated Thousand Oaks hotel. The newly renovated Courtyard by Marriott Thousand Oaks, CA hotel is TripAdvisor Award of Excellence winner located off US-101 with easy access to Burbank Bob Hope Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Amgen, Anthem and California Lutheran University.
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 knife has been used by ancient man since the bronze age. The fork was mentioned in the Old Testament but is thought to have been used in Venice in the 11 century. The spoon (originally wooden or bone) has been used by man since the stone age. Tony Muir, Tamarama. Knives from flints and spoons from shells go back to early man. Bone forks have been found in the Qijia culture (2400 BC - 1900 BC) of ancient China but were not used widely in the West before the early seventeenth century and, in Britain, the eighteenth. Paul Roberts, Lake Cathie.