ANTA01H3 Chapter 9: Human Antiquity Textbook Notes - Ch. 9
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When the leakey family found zinjanthropus in 1959 the also found simple stone tools at the same level of the olduvai gorge, knew that the zinji was to primitive to make those tools. Lower paleolithic (early stone age) earliest period of hominid toolmaking in africa, europe and. Dates as much as 2. 5 mya (africa) to about 250, 000 ya throughout the old world. Tools called the oldowan, after olduvai gorge are very simple also, called pebble tools . Pebble tools: earliest type of hominid stone tool, made from water smoothed stones with a few flakes taken off one or both sides (having sharp edges) 3-4 inches across. *tools can be made from its method or manufacture, need some imagination, because the tool requires the maker to imagine what the tool he/she makes does and the process needed to make it. This was a great increase in technological skills, reason for the importance of stone making.
