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Gaugamela

(3,178 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 05:25 PM 3 hrs ago

3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History

Language may have evolved far earlier than we thought.


Tool marks on animal bones date back over 3 million years – 800,000 years before our first ancestors even emerged.

Three million years ago, something intelligent was walking across Africa.
But it wasn't human. It didn’t have a human brain. Yet it left behind something remarkable...

So if intelligence existed before humans…what does that mean for how we view our history?

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3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History (Original Post) Gaugamela 3 hrs ago OP
Humanity began long before humans. cachukis 2 hrs ago #1
Crows with tiny brains compared to us use tools (twigs etc) to extract grubs from wood.. Smart little boogers. mitch96 2 hrs ago #2

mitch96

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2. Crows with tiny brains compared to us use tools (twigs etc) to extract grubs from wood.. Smart little boogers.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 06:38 PM
2 hrs ago

So this makes sense our 3 million year old ancestors would come up with rudimentary tools...
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