Slow To Develop Culture
Many anthropologists currently posit that early humans likely didn’t develop culture until around 100,000 years ago. When we consider the “mitochondrial Eve” theory, which suggests that we are all descended from one East African woman who lived approximately 200-150,000 years ago, this fact is quite astounding. Homo sapiens evolved over 150,000 years ago, during the time of mitochondrial Eve, who is the most recent common maternal ancestor of all people currently on Earth. This indicates that our species persisted for a significant period before developing art, symbolic communication, ornaments, and bone tools. Pre-cultural humans possessed advanced toolkits and fire, but anthropologists believe that they didn’t create language until a cultural revolution occurred.
Slow To Develop Culture
The Tools They Used
Early evidence of the creation and utilization of stone tools by our predecessors dates back to roughly 2.6 million years ago. However, in Dikika, Ethiopia, there is a discovery of fossil animal bones that potentially show butchery marks, dating back as far as 3.4 million years ago. This new finding suggests that our early ancestors may have used naturally sharp rocks on the bones of animals, such as antelopes, to hunt and prepare their food.
The Tools They Used