Paleolithic tools

A research team from Liverpool asserted that something as simple as the handle may have been the most important invention in the history of civilization—more useful than the wheel, and more convenient than sliced bread!

Topic: Ancient World; The Paleolithic Age or most likely known as the Old Stone Age involves the lifestyle of gathering, hunting, and scavenging. Bones, stones, fish nets and wood tools were only used during those times.

A research team studying 17 bone tools recovered from the Paleolithic site of Ma'anshan Cave, Guizhou Province, southern China have named the artifacts as the oldest formal bone tools in China to date. They also have dated some of the oldest barbed points known outside Africa.

Acheulean Tool Culture developed about 1.7 million years ago by Homo Habilis and later used widely by Homo Erectus.

Such implements were made by splitting and chipping stones, using another stone as a hammer for this purpose. At the right of this picture a stone knife, in the lower hand, is being shaped by chipping blows struck with the stone in the upper hand.

Flint is a rock that has been used to make stone tools and weapons for over 2 million years. It is also used to create sparks and as a gemstone.

India in neolithic age or New stone age is important to know about the evolution of humans and development of various tools and culture

Pendants made from cave bear teeth are among the items found with the earliest modern human fossils in a cave in Bulgaria.