Study reveals Lucy and early hominins may have used tools 3. 2 million . . . This analysis, conducted by researchers from Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and published in the Journal of Human Evolution, focuses on muscle attachment sites in the hands of three Australopithecus species: A afarensis, A africanus, and A sediba
Tool Use Among Australopithecus: Early Evidence of Innovation . . . Among the rolling landscapes of Africa, a remarkable species called Australopithecus was doing something that would forever change the trajectory of human development – they were picking up stones and turning them into tools
Australopiths had use of stone tools - Bradshaw Foundation Australopiths had use of stone tools much earlier than was previously thought Scientists have produced the first research findings to support archaeological evidence for stone tool use among early humans such as fossil australopiths between 3 and 2 million years ago
Human evolution. Human-like hand use in Australopithecus africanus The distinctly human ability for forceful precision and power "squeeze" gripping is linked to two key evolutionary transitions in hand use: a reduction in arboreal climbing and the manufacture and use of tools