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A new find in China has potentially rewritten the course of prehistory. Did our hominid ancestors use sophisticated tools in East Asia 300,000 years earlier than thought? One of the best ways to understand the development of our hominid ancestors is by looking at the tools they used. The increasing sophistication in tool construction and use demonstrates the advancement of the hominid forefathers of Homo Sapiens, and the type of tools shows us what they were doing in prehistory. The progress of hominids and tool making is subject to constant revision as we find out more and more about the distant past. And this new discovery does indeed suggest that a hominid species may have been making sophisticated tools hundreds