Paleolithic tools

A research team from Liverpool asserted that something as simple as the handle may have been the most important invention in the history of civilization—more useful than the wheel, and more convenient than sliced bread!

Acheulean Tool Culture developed about 1.7 million years ago by Homo Habilis and later used widely by Homo Erectus.

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Topic: Ancient World; The Paleolithic Age or most likely known as the Old Stone Age involves the lifestyle of gathering, hunting, and scavenging. Bones, stones, fish nets and wood tools were only used during those times.

Lower Paleolithic stone utensils. Oldowan: 1 A chopper from the Vallonet cave; 2 Sterkfontein utensil; 3 chopping-tool Mode 2 Oldowan; 4 chopping tool, Mode 1 Oldowan. (From: Bordes, F., Le Paléolithique dans le monde, 1968)

Hunting and gathering: Paleolithic The Indian stone age is divided into the palaeolithic, mesolithic, and neolithic on the basis of geological age, the type and technology of stone tools, and subsi…

Such implements were made by splitting and chipping stones, using another stone as a hammer for this purpose. At the right of this picture a stone knife, in the lower hand, is being shaped by chipping blows struck with the stone in the upper hand.