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Many tools were made in prehistory or in the early centuries of recorded history, but archaeological evidence can provide dates of development and use. [13] [14] [15] Olduvai stone technology ( Oldowan ) 2.5 million years ago (scrapers; to butcher dead animals)
3.3 Mya - 2.6 Mya: Stone tools - found in modern day Kenya are older and only found on the archetype road. Ancient stone tools from Ethiopia were hand-crafted by Australopithecus or related people. [further explanation needed] 2.3 Mya: Earliest likely control of fire and cooking, by Homo habilis
Bone tool. In archaeology, a bone tool is a tool created from bone. A bone tool can conceivably be created from almost any bone, and in a variety of methods. Bone tools have been documented from the advent of Homo sapiens and are also known from Homo neanderthalensis contexts or even earlier. Bone has been used for making tools by virtually all ...
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools and techniques by humans. Technology includes methods ranging from as simple as stone tools to the complex genetic engineering and information technology that has emerged since the 1980s. The term technology comes from the Greek word techne, meaning art and craft, and the word ...
A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made either partially or entirely out of stone. Although stone tool-dependent societies and cultures still exist today, most stone tools are associated with prehistoric (particularly Stone Age) cultures that have become extinct. Archaeologists often study such prehistoric societies, and refer ...
The history of construction traces the changes in building tools, methods, techniques and systems used in the field of construction. It explains the evolution of how humans created shelter and other structures that comprises the entire built environment. It covers several fields including structural engineering, civil engineering, city growth ...
Similarly, hard materials like bone or shell are more likely than softer materials to leave discernible cut marks on bone. Bamboo has been shown to leave cut marks on bone that are harder to see than cut marks by stone. [3] So the earliest evidence of tool use that we are likely to find are often cut marks made on bone by stone or shell tools ...
Serrated tools with indications that they were used to cut wood were found at Pech-de-l'Azé caveIV in France. These tools date to 90,000-30,000 years BCE. In ancient Egypt, open (unframed) pull saws made of copper are documented as early as the Early Dynastic Period, c. 3,100 –2,686 BC.