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simple fact from his field. This is from Noel Boaz.

He is talking, below, about Homo Erectus, who ranged over East Africa and
Asia (into China) 1,800,000 to maybe 200,000 years ago. Erectus weighs
about 100 to 150 pounds, walks on his hind legs, has a brain case only a
little smaller than us or Neanderthals, and likely was a lot smarter than
dogs, apes, or chimps. But did he 'think?'

He was most likely naked, and had a very thick skull, like Neanderthals.
Unlike Neanderthals, he does not bury his dead. He eats fruit, vegetables,
and road kill; but also hunts down antelope, uses fire to roast meat and
to burn down prairies, and makes tools... well, **one** tool.

Quoting Noel Boaz (emphasis is his)..

"The available archeological data on Home Erectus reveals that one
type of tool was used for about a million years -- **one** type of stone
tool, for a **million** years, all over Africa wherever Homo Erectus is
found after 1.4 million years ago. For some reason it is not associated
with Asian Homo Erectus. This stone tool is the Acheulean hand ax. 

"It is not an easy tool to make and modern Homo Sapiens graduate
students are not able to fashion a very good one even after an entire
academic term of practical experience.

"The implication is that Homo Erectus would have expended a
tremendous amount of time and energy -- years -- laboriously learning how
to make hand axes. The technique must have been passed on by rote
repetition. Hand axes stayed the same for untold generations.

"This method of cultural transmission is entirely foreign to us.
Nothing that we Homo Sapiens learn and internalize stays the same. We have
to change it, improve it, make it look better, modify it to fit our
specific needs -- be it a chair, an art form, or our own language. But
this never occured to Homo Erectus, not in a million years.

It looks like the Paleolithic weapon of mass destruction. To put Homo
Erectus in perspective: Neanderthals fashioned stone spear points, cutting
blades, scrapers, and awls, besides hand axes. Homo Neanderthalus overlaps
Homo Erectus by maybe a half million years. On a lesser scale, so do we.
We do all that, and make art, but so did the Neanderthals.