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A sundial
World's oldest known sundial is 1500 BC
Well in its basic form it's a literal stick in the ground, you aren't gonna get anything more ancient than that.
if you can't read the hours you could just look at the sky.
I guess, but sun on its own doesn't really fit the definition of a tool