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Similar stones, probably held in the hand and used as crude axes or hammers, have been found elsewhere in Africa, but they are always accompanied by other kinds of stone implements. Arambourg concluded that the stones he found were made by an extremely primitive "humanoid" whose dim wits had discovered only this one item of stone-working technology...
Earliest Humanoids. In Algeria, Paleontologist Camille Arambourg of France's National Museum of Natural History stumbled across dim traces of primeval man. He was digging into a rich deposit of animal bones between the cities of Constantine and Setif when he found some peculiar stones. They were about the size of a man's fist, smooth and rounded on one side and cut into rough facets on the other. At first he thought they were natural accidents, but when he found 300 of them in one small area, he decided that no accident could have brought them together...
...bones of the creature were found, so Arambourg cannot say what type he belonged to. Certainly he lived a long time ago. The animal bones associated with the fist-axes were of long extinct animals, including the stylohipparion (a primitive horse) and the libytherium (a short-necked giraffe). Arambourg thinks that these animals are about one million years...
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