Sentences with phrase «pushed early hominins»

The really interesting scientific question is, «What pushed early hominins to make stone tools at that place and at that point in time?

Not exact matches

Over the last few decades, however, as subsequent discoveries pushed back the date for the earliest stone tools to 2.6 million years ago (Ma) and the earliest fossils attributable to early Homo to only 2.4 - 2.3 Ma, there has been increasing openness to the possibility of tool manufacture before 2.6 Ma and by hominins other than Homo.