The first person in each group was
taught by archaeologists how to make artifacts called Oldowan tools, which include fairly simple stone flakes that were manufactured by early humans beginning about 2.5 million years ago.
Morgan and University of Liverpool
archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions
by conducting a series of experiments in
teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created
by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.