There is a report of the possible use of toothpicks from 1.8 million years
ago. It can be found at:
http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/toothpick.shtml
Why is this important? Because it illustrates a fascinating fact about the
fossil record. The gap between the first and second occurrences in the
fossil record of ANY object often display incredible gaps. The previously
oldest evidence of toothpicks is from Atapuerca and dates from 120-500
thousand years ago. This new evidence gives us a gap of almost 1.3-1.7
million years between the first and second occurrence of a simple thing like
toothpicks. I have documented in the past the fact that the first and
second appearance of any group often entails millions of years of gap. And
currently the oldest evidence of our genus, Homo, is dated to 2.5 million
years ago. Due to the nature of gaps, like those seen with the first
toothpick use imply that the actual first member of our genus very well may
have lived as long as 4-5 million years ago or even longer ago.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
http://www.flash.net/~mortongr/dmd.htm
Lots of information on creation/evolution
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