Early Human Tools


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 cam be split and chipped to form an extremely sharp edge. They used pointed sticks,pots,looms, and scythes. Pointed sticks were used for digging up roots, pieces of rock with the edges sharpened were used for cutting meat and skins, scythes were used for cutting grain, pots for storing food, and looms for weaving. Cro-Magnon man made chisels, scrapers, needles, and knives. They made spears by attaching blades to long sticks. Then they developed spear throwers that allowed them to kill animals at a great distance. This made it safer for them.