"The singularity began with stone tools": Lomekwian artifacts reframed as tech's starting point
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-11
A hot take arguing the singularity began with the first simple stone tools (Lomekwian) made by early hominins before the genus Homo. The accompanying graphic notes the Lomekwi tools, found in Kenya in 2015, are the oldest known stone tools — proof that pre-Homo species were more advanced than assumed.
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