BIOLOGY 1M03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Oldowan, Termite, Menopause
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Early hominins tool users, because tool use in common in apes. Orangutans use sticks to pry open fruits, gorillas use sticks to probe depth of water as they come across swamps, chimps use sticks to extract termites from their mounds. Stones as a tool, the oldowan tool industry . Early hominins used naturally occurring stones as tools, and then began to modify them. Researchers have found animal bones marked by stone tools from 3. 4 mya used to scrape flesh off bones of animals. By 2. 3 mya, hominins were using and producing stone tools such as flakes (small, sharp chips)m cores, hammer stones and debris from manufacturing. Rounded stones that have been flaked a few times to produce an edge. We don"t know which hominins were responsible for making the tools. The first oldowan toolmaker very well could have been a member of the genus homo. Seemed to be mainly tools for right-handed stuff. Simply collected from the environment and eaten.
