What is the first thing a caveman invented lol?

Answer 1

I believe, and Wikipedia seems to agree, language of some kind came first.

If we are using the word "caveman" to mean mankind, and using invention rather than using unaltered, found objects, then, after language, wikipedia says struck stone tools, but I disagree. I think we (mankind) used vegetable matter for the next invention, but this is just an opinion. My guess would be wooden tools, like a found object (a broken tree limb) but worked with sandstone, perhaps.

From the Bowling Green State University website, this speculation from a member of the chemistry department (BGSU website below): For example, it is entirely possible that mankind's first invention was a shopping bag of some sort made from woven reeds or grass, which enabled our hunter-gatherer ancestors to collect the things they gathered and transport them from place to place.

Then, I believe, the discovery that some found rocks could be knocked about with others to make a sharper edge.



This, anyway, is Wikipedia’s list. MYA=million years ago, TYA=thousand years ago

Paleolithic Era
Indeterminate: Language
2.4 mya: Olduwan - struck stone tools, in East Africa
1.65 mya: Acheulean - struck and reworked stone tools, in Kenya
1 mya: Controlled fire and cooking in East Africa
500 tya: Shelter construction [1]
100-500 tya: Clothing
400 tya: Pigments in Zambia [2]
400 tya: Spears in Germany [3]
100 tya: Lithic blades in Africa and the Near East
60 tya: Ships probably used by settlers of New Guinea
50 tya: Flute in Slovenia
50 tya: Bow in Tunisia [4] [5]
43 tya: Mining in Swaziland and Hungary
37 tya: Tally sticks in Swaziland [6]
30 tya: Sewing needles
26 tya: Ceramics in Moravia
25 tya: Atlatl in Northwest Africa [7]
12 tya: Pottery in Japan

Answer 2

Caveman Inventions

Answer 3

Chimpanzees have been observed fishing termites from mounds with the means of a stick. Considering chimpanzees have more in common with humans than any other life-form, it is plausible that the first thing a caveman invented was a termite retrieval stick.

Answer 4

that's easily understood and understand whilst and how human beings domesticated wild plant life into useful types. It wasn't the cavemen that executed that. Paleolithic human beings genuinely have been able to seek stags, aurocs or maybe mastodons. How? human beings have sweat glands that enable the physique to calm down. A stag can no longer sweat, over heats and lowers his head the rest is uncomplicated in spite of a rock. human beings only had to maintain a beast on the circulate to teach it into roast beef. nonetheless human beings in Africa hunt antelopes this way. Aurocs, a extinct type relative to the bulls they use in Spain for bullfights, grew to become into hunted by using making him chase human beings into airborne dirt and mud swimming pools the place he have been given caught and drained attempting to get out. To make absolutely everyone appear like a fool you're able to could start up by using making your self seem clever.

Answer 5

The Club

Answer 6

Stone tools. Next, more sophisticated stone knives, axes, spear points, arrow points. There were the New Stone Age and the Old Stone Age. Neolithic and Paleolithic. After that, cave art: Paintings on the walls of caves in order to help them propitiate the spirits of animals whom they hunted, in order to have more success in hunting.

Answer 7

Electric hedge trimmers. Electricity wasn't invented till a little later.

Answer 8

I would say a hunting tool, something to kill an animal quicker than just jumping on it to catch it lol

Answer 9

How to deal with the animals (bears,tigers, snakes, etc) who lived in the caves before them.

Answer 10

the first stone tools were a rounded rock that was a club/knife
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