What types of tools did early man use??

Question

And if possible...please enter a site or book

Answer 1

not the ones people write about thats a fact

Answer 2

Flint for fire. Stones and slings for hunting.

Answer 3

The 1st tool was probably a small twig or piece of grass to fetch termites out of their mounds or grubs out of logs. Later, when they started to scavenge meat from predator kills it was any rock to break a bone & allow them to eat the marrow.  However, these hominids would not have qualified as Homo at that time.  

It appears as Homo hablis was the 1st to actually break rocks to achieve a sharp edge that allowed them to butcher a kill & carry it away from the scavenged area & to safety. Homo erectus appears to have been the 1st to form rocks to perform specific tasks such as scraping hides & both killing & skinning their prey. Debate over wheather hablis actually made fire or simply used it on occasion is still in process... but it is obvious that eretus actually learned to make fire. This being the giant leap forward in human evolution & tool usage.

http://www.ecotao.com/holism/hu_habilis....

Answer 4

Big subject - many thousands of good books on this subject. Here is a good online resource.  

http://www.primitive.org/

Answer 5

Sticks and stones.

Answer 6

Stone, wood, probably cords or ropes made from tendons or  animal skins.

Answer 7

Tools for must of history were made out of stone. About 40,000 years ago tools of bone. antler and horn appeared.

Homo eretus used stone tools made by the Acheuliam process. This mainly produced a hand ax, a fist sized piece of rock that tapered to a point. The hand ax was suitable to be used as an ax, a knife, scrapper, or to dig roots.



The original stone tools, called pebble tools, or Olduvai choppers, were made out of volcanic basalt, granite or any of the local rock.

Today you can make stone tools out of basalt, greenstone, and quartzite. These stone types produce strong, long wearing tools but are very difficult to make. However they are suited for axes and pounding.

Later flint, a form of quartz called a cryptocrystaline, was used. Other variations: chalcedony, jasper, and agates have been used. A rougher and harder variation of flint is chert. This often has to be heat treated to be workable. Together these types of stone make up the bulk of the artifacts found.

Where possible, and available, obsidian is used. This is a volcanic glass and produces the finest edge of all the stone. This form of rock produces the most extreme tools in terms of thinnest and design capabilities.

Bottle glass, telegraph insulators and even toilets ("Jonnystone") have been used to make tools.

The physics of making stone tools requires knowledge of the Hertzian cone. This is best seen when a pellet or stone strikes a thick piece of glass. A short flatten cone is knocked out (called a "potlid" from it's shape) The cone has an angle of 130 degrees. Using this angle allows you to knock off flakes from the rock. Too steep and angle and only small chunks will come off. Too shallow and the rock either wouldn't flake or step fractures (looking like stairs) will be formed. The latter will ruin the tool.

The Clovis people preferred exotic stones. Often they would import or carry the stone from many miles away. They also produced the most beautiful stone points.

The Cro-Magnon took "green bone" (fresh bone that has not dried) and cut it to shape. Once it "cured" it became hard and strong. He also started to "peck" stone to make it smoother and to cut better.

Wood was used for atlatals and spear. The points of the spears were hardened by "cooking" them in a fire. It is thought that wood spears were used long before someone tied a stone point on to one. However, wood does not preserved well in the soil.

Answer 8

sticks, stones, bits of metal

Answer 9

I am assuming by "early man" you mean the earliest known humans, and their immediate predecessors. Going by that:

The earliest stone tools date to approximately 2.5 million years ago and are from Gona, Ethiopia. A hammerstone is used to hit another stone called the core to break off flakes of stone, creating sharp cutting edges on the flakes as well sometimes the core. The earliest tools are referred to as the "Oldowan" industry.

Out of the Oldowan developed the Acheulean, which is characterized by the use of giant hand-axes that are bifacially flaked (that is, flakes are knocked off both sides). Though referred to as hand-axes, it is now debated whether these were actually used themselves as tools, or were carried around to use as cores (that is, to knock off flakes to use as tools). Some are extremely large in size, well over a foot. These are associated with early Homo.

A method called "Levallois" began being used  almost 300,000 years ago, though not widespread till 200,000, around the end of the use of Acheulean "hand-axes". Around this time is also the first evidence of hafting. Levallois consists of knocking off flakes off a core in such a way as to shape it for a final flake removal, in which the flake you knock off has a desired shape. This is associated with Neandertals in Europe and modern humans in Africa.

Around 40,000 years, there was yet another technological shift. In Europe it is primarily associated with humans that are beginning to spread throughout the continent, though there are instances where Neandertals seem to have adopted it.  Instead of just producing flakes, blades were specifically made- blades are flakes twice as long as they are wide. This is a more economical use of stone.

Extant apes today exhibit a degree of tool-using behaviors, such as using leaves to cover their heads when it rains, or sticks to dig termites out of a mound. So it is likely our common ancestor also used simple tools. Australopithecines, our ape-like predecessors, may have utilized long bone splinters to either dig for termites or dig up tubers and roots in southern African. However, these tools may have actually been used by early Homo. It is impossible to directly associate them with either hominid species. Until about 40,000 years ago, bone tools are very rare compared to stone tools. There are also some wooden spears from Germany, but, understandingly there is very little direct evidence of using wood for tools, given that is would need very special conditions in order to be persevered until now.  Almost all of what we know is based on stone tools (lithics).  Metal is not used for a really long time.

Answer 10

His mind