What did humans use as tools before the Stone Age?

Question

Did they use bones and wood? What is the evidence? Also, did every group move into the Stone Age and use stone tools?

Answer 1

Bones..

Answer 2

That's a very tough question. Homo habilis is generally considered the first tool maker and used stone tools. However Australopithecus afarensis is believed to have used bones to dig up roots. The main problem with the question is that wood doesn't remain in fossil records. If other australopithecines did use tools, we would have trouble finding it unless it were made of something hard like stone.

Answer 3

They used large pieces of wood as clubs.  Sharp sticks as spears and of course for bows and arrows.  They also used lots of antlers, horns, fish bones etc.  All of these have been found in excavations.

In the stone age they all changed to stone tools as these were the best lasted far longer and were more reliable.

Answer 4

Tooth & nail

Answer 5

Homo habilis (handy human) was the first to use tools.  There is the paleolithic (old stone age) and the neolithic (new stone age).  

Even apes and monkeys use sticks as tools. . . so humans aren't the only species that use tools.

Answer 6

anything but stones

Answer 7

BEFORE WE LEARNED TO WORK STONE THERE WERE WOOD AND BONE BUT MOSTLY THERE WERE NO TOOLS WHICH ARE IDENTIFIABLE.

Answer 8

simple tools made of: bones, fishbones, ivory, wood.....

Answer 9

I think it was always stone.

Answer 10

The first hominid tools were roughly shaped stones and flakes.  Later, when hominids began to master the ability to shape tools, they used other materials such as bone and wood.  

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "all groups" using stone tools, but there was a trend towards those who used stone tools and other species who did not use tools became extinct.  The first tool-makers were not "humans", if you mean H0mo sapien sapien, rather it is generally accepted that H0mo habilis was the first toolmaker.  On the evolutionary scale, there are approximately 2-3 other species between them and us.

Answer 11

They didn't as far as we know - the stone age was the beginning of man using tools (we assume).