Tools,2,600,000BC

If there is one defining feature of Home that has separated it from all other genera, it is the ability to make tools. The earliest tool fragments come from East Africa and were made by Home habilis more than two million years ago, but it is certain early man used tools before then, likely fashioning them from perishable materials such as wood or bone. Axes emerged as early as 10,000BC and by3000BC the Egyptians were certain finely worked flints.