Bone by bone, UT Austin paleoanthropologist John Kappelman pieced together the life and death of Lucy, the most famous fossil of a human ancestor.
READ MORE:Archaeologists have discovered some of the first-ever tools used on Earth at a site in Africa dubbed 'the cradle of humankind.'
The tools are known as the Oldowan tool kit, which previously only spanned from 1.7 million years to 2.9 million years ago. Archaeologists have discovered some of the first tools used on Earth. The artifacts are stones that ancient humans sharpened The site is located on the peninsula called Nyanga, which experts said could help frame humans' existence on Earth.
'Some of the things that we thought occurred in a very short period of time, within the last one million years, are now stretched out over a six million year period,' Potts said. 'That includes tool making.' And when the song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,' the team knew what to name the ancient species that lived 3.2 million years ago.
The facility has a machine designed to scan through materials as solid as a rock and at a higher resolution than medical CT.
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