Homo Habilis Painting

Homo Habilis - 2.8 - 1.5 Million years ago. Her fossils are found with copious amounts of stone tools. She is our great great grandmother of tool usage, according to Cat Bohannon. Yes, she. Old stories of tools being invented for man to hunt.... they're wrong. In modern chimpanzees (with whom we share 99 percent of our DNA), females are three times more likely than males to hunt with spears. Female chimps are also more adept than males at using stones to crack nuts. I won't write a book here...but several have been written on evidence that females were the first tool users. My painting is based on drawings by paleoartists and on museum reconstructions and dioramas. Stone tools are being used to butcher a hippo. It was found dead, our great great grandparents are scavengers of large animals more than hunters of them. The males are the main tool users in the dioramas of Homo Habilis that I found. That's probably not historically accurate. More info on my blog: .html