12. Oldowan Tools

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Oldowan Tools are the oldest tools we have discovered. They were made by early hominids and have been discovered at sights with homo habilis fossils. Oldowan Tools were made by banging one rock against another rock to create a sharp cutting edge. These tools were primarily made with only one blow however some were hit repeatedly to create the desired edge. Oldowan tools were in use between ~2.5 and 1.2 million years ago and were mainly used to butcher animal carcasses. Oldowan tools remained at the cutting edge of the homo societies technology for over a million years.

By: Anna-William Kornberg

Sources:

Manual Page-19

"Oldowan and Acheulean Stone Tools." Museum of Anthropology. U of Missouri, 8 Oct. 2014. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. <http://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/minigalleries/handaxes/intro.shtml>. Picture and Information from this cite

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