Ancient stone-tool making method arose multiple times
Eurasians invented flakes without the help of African hominids
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.