When was the first tool invented?

Question

I don't mean using a rock or a stick. I mean delibratly changing the shape of an object to suit a specific purpose.

Answer 1

that would be by flaking a rock into a specific shape for specific or general use....often attached to the end of a stick.

i forget the time period, but whenever the first tools of the acheullian  tool tradition; i dont know if i spelled that right.

Answer 2

If that question could be answered it would require the base fact of 100% historical knowledge in detail of the world as a hole and not specifically a particular cultures or nations and would have to remain 100% all knowing to the day we existed.

Since our knowledge of the past is so lacking, even if we pretend we know alot, its overall very narrow and gets very sketchy further we go back, to knowing almost nothing, were hundreds of theories instead dominate.

Thats why every decade we make some new discovery which changes how we look at the past and its normally not to far into the past either.

Answer 3

that is up for discussion as anthropologist are still to this day and at this moment digging up fossils and the tools of that modern day "society" if you will. so even when they think they have found the first tool..they will find another, and another and so on. it may take more years before the very first tool will be identified..may not even happen in our life time.

Answer 4

"H. habilis - which means "handy man" - was also the first early human to habitually create tools and use them to break bones and extract marrow. This tool-making tradition, known as Oldowan, lasted virtually unchanged for a million years. Oldowan tools were made by breaking an angular rock with a "hammerstone" to give simple, sharp-edged stone flakes for chopping and slicing."

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/bein...

Btween 2.5 and 2 million years ago, according to the timeline linked to from that page.

Answer 5

Well as far as I know and I collect these things, stone tools are the oldest known artifacts of ancient man!  Crude choppers were fashioned from a stone, where they broke it to have a sharp side or something of a point.  They probably realized certain broken rocks had sharp edges and they began to replicate that and customize it to function better.

Answer 6

well i know you said that you dont know mean stone and sticks

but just to let you know they were specificly made for a purpos like a stone ws tied to a stick in order to make a hamer to tha was early people could hammer things into the ground

Answer 7

Hominids had been using tools before the emergence of modern humans, so they are actually older than us. Tool use among modern humans began 100,000 years ago, give or take, because that's when we showed up on Earth.

Deliberate tool use among human ancestors, like Australopithecus, began over two million years ago, as far as we know. It's probably a safe bet that other animals were using tools of some sort before that.

Answer 8

I dunno...I'd guess maybe the wheel.

Answer 9

A hammer- A stick tied a rectangle stone.

Answer 10

Man's tool between his legs?

Answer 11

You would probably have to go back close to 600 million years to meet your specific instructions.  Apes have pretty sophisticated tool making and some monkeys and birds can even shape twigs to extract grubs.   When paleontologists talk about tools they are usually referring to specific technology and shaping of rocks.  Defining tools like that probably goes back about 2.5 million years.  We certainly used tools earlier but the technology wasn't very sophisticated or recognizable.