The major discovery in Africa of stone tools dating around 3.3 million years old has forced scientists to push back the standard dating of the dawn of culture by 700,000 years.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/stone_tool_discovery_shows_culture_evolved_much_earlier_20150521
An ancient depiction of a face (not one of the tools discovered in Kenya). (Alaskan Dude / CC BY 2.0)