A Virtual Tour of the NMNH: Human Evolution
Stone Hand Axe
 Stone Hand Axe


Tools such as this one-million-year-old stone hand axe will be part of our new exhibit on human origins. Museum anthropologist Richard Potts uncovered it at the Olorgesailie archaeological site in Kenya. Based on such discoveries, Potts is reconstructing how early humans interacted with their environments and how changes in those environments influenced human evolution.


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