CLCV 1008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Olduvai Gorge, Homo Habilis, Stone Tool

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 1008
• Professor: Marianne S.Goodfellow

Document Summary

Tools & tech, trade & transport chapters 8 & 9. Thompson"s three age system: stone age, bronze age. Tools are the basic means by which human beings impact the world around them. Louis and mary leaky found homo habilis in olduvai gorge (tanzania). He is the first known toolmaker and the earliest known member of our genus. The manufacture of a stone tool is a reductive/subtractive technology. The toolmaker reduces the original stone core in size until he achieves the desired shape. Flint and obsidian break in predictable ways when struck. However, it is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between stones shaped my man and some broken naturally. The shaping of stone tools is called flint knapping. The oldest stone tools are called olduwan (from the olduvai gorge). Later ones were called acheulian hand axes, made by homo erectus. The term acheulian comes from a site in france associated with st. acheul.