Ancient stone-tool making method arose multiple times

Eurasians invented flakes without the help of African hominids

early stone tools

FLAKE MAKERS  Hominids living in Eurasia around 330,000 years ago crafted stone tools from lumps of volcanic glass using a flake-making technology they may have invented themselves.  

D.S. Adler

More than 300,000 years ago, Stone Age people in Eurasia may have invented new technology on their own, instead of borrowing it from African migrants, as some researchers suspected.