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Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo lineage

Paranthropus boisei may have used simple stone tools around 1.5 million years ago

Hand bones from a non-homo hominid that could have been used for grasping tools

A newly unearthed partial fossil skeleton, including this set of hand bones, suggests that an extinct hominid species could have made stone tools around 1.5 million years ago.

C. Mongle

By Bruce Bower

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.