Stone Age Tools. Why might people in the Stone Age have needed tools and weapons? What would they be used for?

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Stone Age Tools

Why might people in the Stone Age have needed tools and weapons? What would they be used for?

In the Palaeolithic period, or early stone age, humans developed great skill at fashioning beautiful tools such as hand axes. People were nomadic hunter-gatherers who probably made tools on the spot to skin and butcher large game.

How our ancestors made Stone Age tools. *Early in human evolution people discovered that stone could be used to make tools. *They found that flint, which is similar to a diamond in hardness, fractures easily to give razor sharp edges.

Later, in the Mesolithic or middle stone age, still nomadic, people developed skills at making flake tools that could be mounted in a wooden shaft to make arrows or spears and the first purpose-designed carpentry tools like the Tranchet adze.

In the Neolithic or new stone age, people began to live in agricultural settlements. They had time to make intricately flaked tools such as scythes and polished axes.

The processes they used left distinctive marks on the tools they made. If you get a suitable large piece of flint (called a core) and strike it near the edge with a round pebble, called a hammer stone, you will break off a flint flake. In the palaeolithic period this technique was used to chip flakes away, leaving the core as the tool. In the Mesolithic, this process was commonly reversed large flakes were chipped away to make scrapers and cutting tools and the core was discarded.