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But this rock didn't look like just any rock

Unknown: Cave of Bones

But this rockdidn't look like just any rock. It looked like a tool. We've taken to...

Unknown: Cave of Bones • 2023

But this rock
didn't look like just any rock. It looked like a tool. [HAWKS] We've taken to calling it
"the tool-shaped rock." And even more remarkably,
it's sitting right in the hand. [FUENTES] Stone tools are central
to the genus Homo. But you know what we don't have? A fossil of a member of the genus Homo holding onto a tool that died like this,
saying, "This is my tool." We don't have that. Till now. If this tool-like rock is indeed a tool, it's the first example
of a tool in the hand. Then it's, of course, in a grave. [CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Full Transcript

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But this rock didn't look like just any rock.

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It looked like a tool.

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[HAWKS] We've taken to calling it "the tool-shaped rock."

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And even more remarkably, it's sitting right in the hand.

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[FUENTES] Stone tools are central to the genus Homo.

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But you know what we don't have?

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A fossil of a member of the genus Homo

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holding onto a tool that died like this, saying, "This is my tool."

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We don't have that.

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Till now.

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If this tool-like rock is indeed a tool,

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it's the first example of a tool in the hand.

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Then it's, of course, in a grave.

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[CONTEMPLATIVE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Duration

51 seconds

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35

Timestamp in Movie

00:58:21

Uploaded

Apr 16, 2025

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Production

Story Syndicate

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Movie Summary

Follows Paleo anthropologist Lee Berger in South Africa, as he and his team try to prove that the world's oldest graveyard they found, is not human. A small brained, ape-like creature could have practiced complex burial rituals.