HIST 122 Final: 122 Exam Prep Fall
11 Nov 2016
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The leakey"s finds are the most significant discoveries of early humans in africa. The leakeys nicknamed the creature whose skull they had unearthed dear boy or turkana boy. Other objects discovered with dear boy demonstrated that by this time early humans had begun to make tools for butchering animals and, possibly, for hunting and killing smaller animals. The tools were flaked stones with sharpened edges for cutting apart animal"s flesh and scooping out the marrow from bones. To mimic the slicing teeth of lions, leopards, and other carnivores, the. Oldowans had devised these tools through carefully chipping. Dear boy and his companions had carried usable rocks to distant places where they made their implements with special hammer stones- to make tools. Unlike other tool-using animal"s early humans were now intentionally fashioning implements not simply finding them when needed. More importantly, they were passing on knowledge of these tools to their offspring, and in the process, gradually improving the tools.
