Which hominids made composite tools?

Man began hunting

with stone-tipped spears 460,000 years ago?

Archaeologists

says: analysis of 210 stone tools from the site of Kathu Pan in

South Africa shows that people were probably hunting with

stone-tipped spears by about 460,000 years ago.

If the

Cro-Magnons (45,000-12,700 years ago),could not perform the most

primitive complex tools, which is a piece of sharp stone embedded

in a bone handle – how hominids before 460,000 years, could perform

hafted spear tips, which is more complicated?

The first

composite tools were performed by Homo sapiens (from about 12,700

BP), not by Cro-Magnons. Stone tools of Cro-Magnons were never

embedded in a bone handle, but always held in hand. Although stone

tools embedded in the bone handles are a “hundred times” more

efficient than stone tools held in the hand, neither the

Cro-Magnons nor their predecessors (from 2.6 million of years), did

not make this kind of most primitive composite tools. Why? Because

they were still not humans, but hominids living at the level of

instinct.