All About Tools
Early humans had only a few different tools. They used sharp sticks to dig for roots and bugs, to eat.
They would chip rocks to make them sharp enough for cutting into bone to eat the marrow or slicing animals skin.
The earliest and first well shaped tool was a fist hatchet. One end of the fist-hatchet was for cutting and the other end of the fist hatchet was where the early people held it. The fist hatchet was an all purpose cutting tool.
They would chop down trees, chop up plants and vegtables with the tools.
For 2,000,000 years ancient people lived by hunting animals with their tools. Some tools were made of wood and some
were made of stone. The wooden tools have decayed, but many archaelogists have found many stone tools.
More than 8,000 pieces of flint, including small microlith blades and bigger tools used for hunting and fishing.
The people usually made their tools out of flint, a stone found on the surface of the earth throughout much of Europe,
Africa, and western Asia. In eastern Asia where there was not much flint, the people made their tools out of
quartz instead.
Tools and Weapons
Weapons included stone axes, knives, spears, harpoons, wooden bows, and sharp stone tipped arrows when hunting became increasingly important to obtain food. Round nodules can be split and chipped to form an extremly sharp edge. They used pointed sticks, pots, looms, and scythes. Pointed sticks were used for digging roots, and pieces of rock with sharp edges sharpened were used for cutting meat and scraping skins.
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