Oldowan

Acheul in France, but however the tradition was first developed in Africa (“Oldowan and Acheulean Stone Tools”). The Acheulean tool tradition was perfected by the Homo Erectus, who learned to create more sophisticated tools that were sharper and straighter (O’Neil). The Acheulean tools were delicately worked from the flakes to form oval or pear or rounded outline that had were sharp on all sides (“Oldowan and Acheulean Stone Tools”). The special thing about the flakes is that both sides of the flake were trimmed down, which is how they got their name, the biface tool (O’Neil). Some people referred to this tools as hand axes, which isn’t true because their isn 't proof that they were used as axes, or if they were even held by the hand…

article we will travel back to the early stages of human evolution to date when we began to use objects to assist with life and how the objects were used and made. Oldowan technology is the earliest known evidence of hominids making tools using their environment. This technology was used in the lower Paleolithic period which dates as far back as 2.6 million…

The last stage of the “Old Stone Age” is the Upper Paleolithic Era. During the Upper Paleolithic Era, modern humans drastically changed the tools that were being used. The changes that were made were, leaving behind the hand axe and flake tools and gaining blade tools (Aggarwal). Blade tools were created using the punch flaking technique (O’Neil). The first step in this technique was preparing the rock core, the next step is, placing a hard pointed punch near the striking platform (O’Neil). The…

also known as Old Stone Age, was a remarkable period that encompassed the creation and use of chipped stone tools that characterized the evolution of technology from the Oldowan to the Acheulian, Mousterian, and Upper Paleolithic periods. Early stone tools, known as chopper tools or hammer stones, were discovered by archaeologists at several sites in eastern and southern Africa. Using a technique called percussion flaking, hammer stone tools were used to remove flakes to form choppers or…

tools due to the vast range of hominin species at the current time of creation. The objects found in the Oldowan site were sharp flakes and the cores of stones, which are both reported to be used as tools. Assumptions can be made of the early hominin lifestyles by analyzing these prehistoric tools, the experiments showed that they were most likely used for work like cutting meat, slitting hides and sharpening wood (Ember, Ember & Peregrine, 2007, p.143), which indicated a hunter gatherer…

Hunting and the use of tools are connected; without tools, there would not be any hunting, and without hunting, what would you really use tools for? Archaic Homo sapiens are associated with middle Paleolithic tool assemblages (developed Oldowan and Acheulean tools), and cannibalism as well as hunting other large and small animals. Archaic Homo sapiens used developed Oldowan and Acheulean tools, as well as prepared core (Conroy and Pontzer). Most of these tools used were either made from stone…

The transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic Culture The first part of the stone age was the Paleolithic culture, which begin around 750,000 BC. During the paleolithic culture tools were made. The first tool that was made was the Oldowan dating back to 2.5 - 1.2 million years ago. The homo habilis constructed this tool by using stone and beating off flakes of the stone. There were two types: flake tool and core tool, depending on what needed to be done. The second tool made was the Acheulean it…

Culture can alter the direction of evolution by creating non-biological adaptations to environmental stresses (e.g., wearing insulating clothes on very cold days). This potentially reduces the need to evolve genetic responses to the stresses. This has meant that we have been able to remain essentially tropical animals biologically and live in colder regions of our planet. Biocultural evolution can also involve a mutual, interactive evolution of human biology and culture. (O'Neil, Biological…

capacities of hominins increase as does their ability to develop tools. This increase in tool development made them more favorable in terms of natural selection. Dr. Robert makes two distinctions between different types of tools used by hominins. The first category of tools, known as Oldowan tools were made from stones such as basalt, quartz and quartzite. They were created by hitting two stones together in order to make sharp flakes which were used to make primitive tools known by…

sizes of species such as Homo heidelbergensis increased. Although species’ cranial robusticity decreased over time, the brain size constantly increased, which greatly expanded the omnivorous niche and complex technologies. The evidence for adaptations in the genus Homo in brain sizes hypothesize that extensive human brains support a stronger fit to the terrestrial and omnivorous niche. There are several adaptations and evolutionary forces that caused the emergence of both Neanderthals and…