Early Stone Age Tools - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · The earliest stone toolmaking developed by at least 2.6 million years ago. The Early Stone Age includes the most basic stone toolkits made by early humans. The Early Stone Age in Africa is equivalent to what is called the Lower Paleolithic in Europe and Asia. The oldest stone tools, known as the Oldowan toolkit, consist of at least:
Middle Stone Age Tools - The Smithsonian's Human Origins …
Here, the term ‘Middle Stone Age’ includes a variety of toolkits from Africa and also the toolkits usually referred to as the Middle Paleolithic in Europe. These toolkits last until at least 50,000 to 28,000 years ago.
Stone Tools - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · Stone tools and other artifacts offer evidence about how early humans made things, how they lived, interacted with their surroundings, and evolved over time. Spanning the past 2.6 million years, many thousands of archeological sites …
Later Stone Age Tools - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · Later Stone Age tools include the toolkits called ‘Upper Paleolithic’ in Europe and ‘Late Stone Age’ in Africa. These toolkits are very diverse and reflect stronger cultural diversity than in earlier times.
Tools & Food - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · For more than 2 million years, early humans used these tools to cut, pound, crush, and access new foods—including meat from large animals. How Do We Know This Zebra Was Food? Scanning electron micrograph image of cut marks on fossil bone
Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...
2024年1月3日 · Dart assumed these broken animal bones, teeth and horns were used by Au. africanus as weapons; however, in the 1970s and 1980s, other scientists began to recognize that predators such as lions, leopards, and hyenas were instead responsible for …
Oldowan Tools from Lokalalei, Kenya | The Smithsonian …
2024年1月3日 · For more than 2 million years, early humans used these tools to cut, pound, crush, and access new foods—including meat and bone marrow from large animals. Exhibit Item Site: Lokalalei, Kenya
Oldest Use of Stone Tools? | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...
2010年8月12日 · Early humans made stone tools by about 2.6 million years ago. Researchers have now found fossil animal bones with possible butchery marks about 3.4 million years old at Dikika, Ethiopia. This discovery could show that early humans used naturally sharp rocks on the bones of antelope-sized animals.
Homo sapiens - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · Prehistoric Homo sapiens not only made and used stone tools, they also specialized them and made a variety of smaller, more complex, refined and specialized tools including composite stone tools, fishhooks and harpoons, bows and arrows, spear throwers and sewing needles.
Homo habilis - The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program
2024年1月3日 · Currently, the oldest stone tools are dated slightly older than the oldest evidence of the genus Homo. History of Discovery: A team led by scientists Louis and Mary Leakey uncovered the fossilized remains of a unique early human between 1960 and 1963 at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.