STONE TOOLS (c.2,600,000 B.C.E.)

EARLY HUMANKIND USHERS IN THE AGE OF INVENTIONS
                           
The very first human invention consists of sharp flints, found and used in their natural state by primitive peoples,who then went on to purposely sharpen stones.The practice reaches back to the very dawn of humankind;stone tools found in 1969 in Kenya are estimated be 2,600,000 years old.
The principal types of tools,which appeared in the paleolithic period ,and varied in size and appearance,are known as core,flake and blade tools.The core tools are the largest and primitive and were made by working on a fist-sized piece of rock or stone with a similar rock and knocking large flakes off one side to produce a sharp crest.This was a general-purpose implement used for hacking .pounding,or cutting.Eventually,thinner and sharper cores tools were developed,which were more useful much later,Especially during the last 10,000 years of the Stone Age ,other techniques of producing stone artifacts-including pecking,grinding,sawing and boring-came into play.
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