2006-12-03 08:35:11 · 4 answers · asked by lucy11liu 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Stone tools. Stone tools made of minerals such as chert, flint These were modified slightly by them to make cutting edges for primitive knives, hand axes. Such primitely worked (knapped), tools have been discovered with their remains. Other stones would be used as hand hammers, usually unmodified. Hard minerals such as granite occasionally diorite, ocassionally basalt. Bone such as antlers could be sharpened to use as digging toos, seed drills, and small bone pieces for awls and needles. They doubtlessly used wooden tools but none have survived due to decay (as far as I know). Spears could have been all wood with a sharpened point that could also be fire hardened. It is possible that they discovered and used spear throwing sticks, (atlatls), which were as effective as the later discovered bow and arrow but harder to master. (the modern Aborigines still use them, and the Aztecs did too). Nets ans baskets could have been made of twisted fibre, but they would not have survived more than a million or more years.
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