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Sonia Harmand et al. (2015), “3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya.” Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14464 — earliest securely published stone-artifact assemblage.

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  • 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
  • Harmand et al. (2015), 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya
  • Sonia Harmand et al. (2015), “3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya.” Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14464 — earliest secure stone-artifact anchor.

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Hominin Evolution

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earliest securely published stone-artifact assemblage.

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Forbidden Archaeology

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Controlled archaeological example separating early toolmaking from Homo sapiens identity

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Paleolithic Period

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earliest secure stone-artifact anchor.

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Michael Cremo

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Harmand and collaborators' peer-reviewed report showing that securely excavated very early tools can extend technological chronology without demonstrating Homo sapiens or anatomically modern humans at that age.

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Hominin Evolution

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Forbidden Archaeology

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Paleolithic Period

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The identity of the hominins who made the Lomekwi 3 stone artifacts remains unresolved.

Most direct ancestor-descendant links, languages, beliefs, and the identity of many toolmakers are unrecoverable or unresolved.
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Controlled evidence does not equate very old toolmaking with anatomically modern humans: Jebel Irhoud is dated to about 315,000 years, while the 3.3-million-year-old Lomekwi tools have no identified Homo sapiens maker.

The extreme-human-antiquity conclusion is weakly supported, and broad coordinated suppression is not demonstrated; scientific rejection of inadequate evidence is not itself proof of a conspiracy.
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The cited scientific record does not establish anatomically modern humans millions of years before the accepted Homo sapiens record.

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The identity of the makers of the earliest known stone-artifact assemblages remains unresolved.

Earliest artifact makers, control of fire, behavioral-modernity labels, and regional periodization.
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Securely excavated 3.3-million-year-old tools do not demonstrate that Homo sapiens existed at the same age.

Answer / theory: Yes. Bias and paradigms can exist, but weak evidence can still be weak. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence for the sociological point; Weak Evidence for the conclusion.
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Cremo and Thompson’s 1993 book claims that anatomically modern humans existed millions of years earlier than accepted chronology and that scientific institutions filtered contrary evidence.

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Cremo and Thompson argue that humans like us existed in deep geological time and that contrary evidence was filtered out; the catalog documents this claim but does not support it scientifically.

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Forbidden Archeology is a primary source for the extreme-antiquity claim, but its catalog record is not scientific validation and the listed human-origins evidence does not overturn Homo sapiens chronology.

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Sonia Harmand et al. (2015), “3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya.” Nature. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14464 — earliest securely published stone-artifact assemblage.

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