Humans use technology to shape environments and solve adaptive problems far beyond the scope of any other species on Earth. The origin of technology took root millions of years ago, when our ancestors first began striking stones together to produce flakes with sharp cutting edges.
Emma Finestone, Associate Curator and the Robert J. and Linnet E. Fritz Endowed Chair of Humans Origins at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will review the early archaeological record and the corresponding hominin fossil record. She will discuss how research on the Homa Peninsula in Kenya adds to growing evidence that our evolutionary relatives in the genus Paranthropus—and potentially earlier hominins in the genus Australopithecus—may have been among the earliest stone tool users.
Moderator: Briana Pobiner, paleoanthropologist and educator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This program is part of the ongoing HOT (Human Origins Today) Topic series and will be presented as a Zoom video webinar. A link will be emailed to all registrants.
