What are the hominid earliest tools made of?

Question

What are the hominid earliest tools made of?

Answer 1

Well actually early cultures show evidence of bone, stone and antler tools. The type of stone used depended on the availablity og geological resources in the area.  Flint and Quartz are popular in the SE Unites States.  Obsidian is  in my opinion the coolest because it is extremely sharp and glossy in finish. It is produced by volcanic eruptions and the cooling of magma.  Bone and antlers were used to produce early needles, scrapers, atlatls etc.

Answer 2

Rock, maybe some wood or vine.

Answer 3

flint rock, volcanic rock, wood, sticks, bones

Answer 4

Most of the answers you will receive will state that some form of rock that has been altered for a particular use was the first tool used by hominoids.

However, they forget that a twig or a branch that has been stripped of its leaves was used to probe termite nests.  Even today's chimps have been observed to do this.  True, these are the most rudementary of "tools" but they are the first tools nontheless.

Answer 5

Dunno.  Chimps use twigs to dig for termites or to fish tasty seeds out of spiky plants; our ancestors were surely doing something similar.  Branches, twigs, and unmodified rocks were probably our earliest tools.  The recognizably modified rocks you see in museums and pictures surely came later.

Answer 6

Since organic materials such as bones, wood, etc do not survive well in the fossil record. We assume that the first material were made of stone by striking one stone with another call percussion flaking to shape the desired tool.

Percussion flaking has been dated to 2.5 million years ago and is considered one of the earliest hominid tools.

Answer 7

The earliest tools that have been found are chipped stones and stones that show marks of battering--especially if those stones are not native to the area (showing they had been brought in  and saved).

It is reasonable to think that other tools were used, like ropes, clubs, etc. that simply would not have fossilized.  Whether these tools predated use of stone tools is not known, but I suspect they were.

Answer 8

hand held rock that was fashioned into a sharp side. They used it as a sharp and blunt object. Because of their inability to improve upon their tool. They became extinct. Due to weather change... The inability to adapt was their final demise.

Answer 9

well, for obvious reasons, the earliest ones we are finding are made from rocks...  that doesnt mean that early people were ONLY using rock to make tools.. there may well have been bone, wood, etc.. any number of organic materials could have been used, and would not survive in the archaeological record...

Answer 10

Obsidian, which is a black glass-like rock.

Flint.

Chertz.

Animals bones and antlers.