Amanuel Beyin

INTRODUCTION Stone artifacts are the most durable and frequent archaeological finds, serving as vital sources of information about the evolution of human technological behavior. Africa has not only the world's oldest record, beginning c. 3.3 Ma ago (Harmand et al., 2015), but also one that extends to the present day in some of the continent's extant hunter-gatherers (Binford, 2001, and references therein) and agropastoral societies (Arthur, 2018; Sahle et al., 2012).

analysis By Amanuel Beyin, Ahmed Hamid Nassr and Parth Randhir Chauhan Africa is the birthplace of humanity. From the time of our lineage's split from the chimpanzee line around 7 million years ago, the continent has remained the primary homeland for successive hominin species - of which modern humans are the sole survivors. This knowledge has been firmly established through fossil and archaeological discoveries from different parts of the continent, most notably from eastern Africa.

Africa is the birthplace of humanity. From the time of our lineage’s split from the chimpanzee line around 7 million years ago, the continent has remained the primary homeland for successive hominin species – of which modern humans are the sole survivors. This knowledge has been firmly established through fossil and archaeological discoveries from different parts of the continent, most notably from eastern Africa. But of course, hominins didn’t stay only in Africa.