The assumption has long been that only the genus Homo was capable of making stone tools. Finding the molars of Paranthropus changes everything.
"The assumption among researchers has long been that only the genusParanthropusThe site also featured at least three individual hippos, two of which were incomplete skeletons that showed signs of butchery.The series of excavations, which began in 2015, returned 330 artifacts, 1,776 animal bones, and two hominin molars.
The Oldowan toolkit is said to have spread as far as modern-day Georgia and China and was not replaced or amended until some 1.7 million years ago.
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