Re: Tool use in australopithicenes

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J Sharpe (JRSHARPE@MECHANICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
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: Did the Australopithicenes use stone tools (ie, the Oldowan tool industry),
: or did they not come around into H. habilis showed up?

The robusts were apparently stone tool-users. Whether the gracials were
prior to habilis is moot last I heard.

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