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  2. Stone tool - Wikipedia

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    The stone tools may have been made by Australopithecus afarensis, the species whose best fossil example is Lucy, which inhabited East Africa at the same time as the date of the oldest stone tools, a yet unidentified species, or by Kenyanthropus platyops (a 3.2 to 3.5-million-year-old Pliocene hominin fossil discovered in 1999).

  3. Stone Age - Wikipedia

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    The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during ... for use as cutting tools and weapons, ... Paver tells of two New Stone Age children fighting to fulfil a ...

  4. Hand axe - Wikipedia

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    The first published picture of a hand axe, drawn by John Frere in the year 1800. Flint hand axe found in Winchester. A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. [1]

  5. Cleaver (Stone Age tool) - Wikipedia

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    Cleavers, found in many Acheulean assemblages such as Africa, were similar in size and manner of hand axes. The differences between a hand axe and a cleaver is that a hand axe has a more pointed tip, while a cleaver will have a more transverse "bit" that consists of an untrimmed portion of the edge oriented perpendicular to the long axis of the tool.

  6. Outline of prehistoric technology - Wikipedia

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    Stone tool changes – small stone tools called Microliths, including small bladelets and microburins, emerged during this period. [25] Weapons – spears or arrows were found at the earliest known Mesolithic battle site at Cemetery 117 in the Sudan. [26] Holmegaard bows were found in the bogs of Northern Europe dating from the Mesolithic ...

  7. Prehistoric warfare - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric warfare refers to war that occurred between societies without recorded history.. The existence—and the definition—of war in humanity's hypothetical state of nature has been a controversial topic in the history of ideas at least since Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan (1651) argued a "war of all against all", a view directly challenged by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a Discourse on ...

  8. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    Stone tools and cut marks on bone Controversial [19] Bokol Dora 1 [20] (BD 1) 2.6 Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia East Africa Stone tools Gona [21] 2.6 Ethiopia East Africa Stone tools and cut marks on bone Perdikkas [22] [23] [24] 3.3–2.5 Perdikkas, Greece Eastern Europe ”Butchered” mammoth bones, stone tools Controversial Bouri Hatayae layer [25 ...

  9. Control of fire by early humans - Wikipedia

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    Fire was used regularly and systematically by early modern humans to heat treat silcrete stone to increase its flake-ability for the purpose of toolmaking approximately 164,000 years ago at the South African site of Pinnacle Point. [11] Evidence of widespread control of fire by anatomically modern humans dates to approximately 125,000 years ago ...