Image: Credit: J.S. Oliver, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project
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“The association of these Nyayanga tools with Paranthropus may reopen the case as to who made the oldest Oldowan tools,” Plummer said in a press release. “Perhaps not only Homo, but other kinds of hominins were processing food with Oldowan technology.”"We are going to continue collecting dating samples, work on vegetation reconstruction through phytolith analysis (the soils have lots of ancient phytoliths), and continue behavioral studies by investigating a broader range of archaeological sites, including in the vicinity of the freshwater spring," Plummer wrote in an email to Motherboard. “And of course if we found more hominin fossils in the process that would not be bad!"
Update: This article was updated with comment from study lead author Thomas Plummer.