The first tools predate the appearance of the Homo genus

The oldest tools ever unearthed were discovered in 2015 and date back 3.3 million years. This finding challenges the theory that only humans of the Homo genus were capable of crafting such objects. This date indeed precedes by 500,000 years the supposed arrival of the Homo genus, which appeared in the Pliocene about 2.8 million years ago.