Tools

Question 1

Who used the First Tools

Answer 1

Later Australopithecines

Question 2

Oldowan Tools

Answer 2

Simple stone made through flaking. Dated 2.6-1.7 mya. Cutting meat and getting marrow. direct percussion. Either homo or australopithecus

Question 3

Acheulean Tools

Answer 3

Dates to 1.76mya-100kya by Homo’s, bifacial hand axes. Controlled flaking. tradition and community

Question 4

First tools?

Answer 4

flakes tools, 3.5 mya, allowed for hunting of bigger animals

Question 5

Muosterian tools

Answer 5

160-40kya. Often used by neandertals. Small complex cores flaked off. Levallois points exceptionally small points. Flint knapping.

Question 6

solutrian Tools

Answer 6

40-16kya. shift in technology, long narrow blades. Leaf points. Used as spear heads, possibly arrows. Primarily France and Spain.

Question 7

flake vs blade

Answer 7

flake is tool chipped out of stone, blades are prepared stones and 2x long as wide