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The Early Stone Age (ESA), which spanned from approximately 2.6 million years ago (mya) -280,000 years ago (ya), describes a period in Eastern African in which the first stone tools were developed. Early sites along the East African Rift include Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin and Olduvai Gorge farther south in modern-day Tanzania. It is thought that the earliest hominins evolved in Olduvai or somewhere similar around 4 million years ago (may). These earliest hominids were discovered in Ethiopia and titled Ardipithecus Ramidus. The diverging species of Hominid are known as Australopithecines and were first discovered in Olduvai. They are know as Australopithecines and their fossils include Paranthropus boisei, the most famous being know and “Zinj” or “Nutcracker man” by Mary Leakey, the archaeologist who found it. Another famous Australopithecine, related to those found at Olduvai Gorge, but found approximately 2000 kilometers to the north east in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia, is Lucy, who was discovered by Donald Johanson and his team in 1974. The earliest relative dating for stone tool use was discovered in 2015, by Sonia Harmand, in Lomekwi 3 West Turkana, Kenya with stone tools dating to 3.3 million years ago. Prior to this discovery the some of the oldest stone tools were found at Lokalalei 2C in Western Turkana with artifacts exhibiting napping processes conducted by Australopithecus Africanus dating to about 2.34 million years ago; which marks the beginning of the ESA.

Incorporation of tools provided early hominins the ability to respond to changes more readily outside of the immediate needs of daily-life and extended adaptability behavioral patterns into long term trends experienced over generations.[2] Around a million years later, Homo erectus produced more advanced Acheulian handaxes. Pioneering archaeological research on this time period was conducted by scholars including Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and more recent research has centered on the earliest development of tool use, fire and diet in hominin societies.

The ESA is separated into two stages; Oldowan choppers and Acheulean hand axes. Oldwan choppers are characterized as multi-use tools and were probably developed by austroplocithicus

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Looking good so far! Let me know if you have any specific questions. Be sure to check that scientific names are formatted correctly - e.g. Ardipithecus ramidus. Also - somehow you're working in the Talk page of your sandbox, and so I think that's why there doesn't seem to be a Visual Editor option? If you move the text to the User Page of your sandbox (the tab on the left), you should be able to use the visual editor tool. Hope that helps :) Ninafundisha (talk) 02:34, 4 October 2016 (UTC)