ANTA01H3 Chapter Notes -Human Evolution
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Simple tools uncovered @ the olduvai gorge in 59 by the leakeys. Lower paleolithic, term used to label the earliest period of hominid toolmaking in. Africa, europe & asia: 2. 5 mya in africa to 250 000 ya throughout the old world. Oldowan, a toolmaking tradition f/ africa associated w/ early homo. Pebble tool, the earliest type of hominid stone tool, made f/ water-smoothed stones w/ a few flakes taken off one or both sides. Core tool, a tool made by taking a flake off a stone. > high level of planning & technological skill. One study found the thumbs of australopithecus and paranthropus to have the dexterity to make stone tools. Homo habilis ( the handy man ) 59, 2. 3-1. 6 mya, tanzania, kenya, ethiopia, s africa. > may have been responsible for the tools. > despite its modern teeth & skull, its limbs are even more primitive than.
