Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain by inventing tools, they were able to accomplish tasks that human bodies could not, such as using a spear or bow to kill prey, since their teeth were not sharp enough to pierce many animals' skins. As well as hunting, other activities required tools such as preparing food, ".nutting, leatherworking, grain harvesting and woodworking." Included in this group are "flake stone tools". Now, more tools are recognized as culturally and historically relevant. Up until recently, weapons found in digs were the only tools of "early man" that were studied and given importance. One of the earliest distinguishable stone tool forms is the hand axe.
įinds of actual tools date back at least 2.6 million years in Ethiopia. This finding pushes back the earliest known use of stone tools among hominins to about 3.4 million years ago. However, a 2010 study suggests the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis ate meat by carving animal carcasses with stone implements. Stone artifacts date back to about 2.5 million years ago. These early tools, however, were likely made of perishable materials such as sticks, or consisted of unmodified stones that cannot be distinguished from other stones as tools.
Because tools are used extensively by both humans and wild chimpanzees, it is widely assumed that the first routine use of tools took place prior to the divergence between the two species. Anthropologists believe that the use of tools was an important step in the evolution of mankind.
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