The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCS
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978-0-19-516712-2
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2008
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loginRoughly 1.6 million years ago, Turkana Boy strode through thesavanna of what today is northern Kenya. He was tall and long-legged and walked dozens of miles a day. He had lost most ofthe hair that had once covered early hominids and looked impressivelyhuman, yet Turkana Boy could not talk. The speciesHomo ergaster,ofwhich Turkana Boy was a member, was a walking, but not yet talking,type of human that would eventually be replaced. One of severalhominid species that predated our ownHomo sapiens, Homo ergasterhad many talents and abilities, skillfully wielding stone tools to performincreasingly complex tasks and, notably, inventing the handaxe.
