Orangutan Stone Tools
Throughout the evolution of humankind, there was increased progress of Stone Age technology and hunter gathering. The crucial part of life, food, cannot only exist but it must be retrieved. Therefore, if it wasn't for the technology and the evolution of hunter gathering, then humankind wouldn't exist. There is plenty of evidence to show how the advancement of gathering food was allowed by the existence of certain stone tools and by the realization to gather food. Paleoanthropologists have done great amounts of research to find out the different stones tools that were used by mankind and to prove their reasons for each. For Orangutan's, we can clearly see that there was no use for stone tools because of their physical characteristics. The
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Bone marrow was a necessity because the later hominids' diet demanded large quantities of fat and protein. Additionally, the unique packaging of the marrow allowed drawing out the marrow and keeping it for a much longer time. In order to do this, the later hominids created useful stone tools. The hominids used stones such as flint, chert, jasper and obsidian which are all as hard as glass. These stones are not found in surplus everywhere and the hominids wouldn't hand out their tools willy-nilly; therefore, they would manufacture whatever they could from their deposits and attain whatever they couldn't through trade systems within their social structure. Another stone tool was the dawn stone. This was a small tool that had a sharp size and a rough side, needing either to crush the bone or cut the meat. After creating their tools, the next step was to create a flaked edge. This would be done by using a finger shaped bone or antler. Additionally, latter hominids created other tools such as the bow and arrow. By bending a splint of wood and attaching the sinew, they would be able to create a catapulting device to launch their spear tipped slivers of wood into animals. Sinew was also useful for hand axes or anything that needed to be tied together. While we have saws to cut objects in half, the latter hominids simply used two stones to break bones, using one for its sharp edge, and the other for its smooth
Bone marrow was a necessity because the later hominids' diet demanded large quantities of fat and protein. Additionally, the unique packaging of the marrow allowed drawing out the marrow and keeping it for a much longer time. In order to do this, the later hominids created useful stone tools. The hominids used stones such as flint, chert, jasper and obsidian which are all as hard as glass. These stones are not found in surplus everywhere and the hominids wouldn't hand out their tools willy-nilly; therefore, they would manufacture whatever they could from their deposits and attain whatever they couldn't through trade systems within their social structure. Another stone tool was the dawn stone. This was a small tool that had a sharp size and a rough side, needing either to crush the bone or cut the meat. After creating their tools, the next step was to create a flaked edge. This would be done by using a finger shaped bone or antler. Additionally, latter hominids created other tools such as the bow and arrow. By bending a splint of wood and attaching the sinew, they would be able to create a catapulting device to launch their spear tipped slivers of wood into animals. Sinew was also useful for hand axes or anything that needed to be tied together. While we have saws to cut objects in half, the latter hominids simply used two stones to break bones, using one for its sharp edge, and the other for its smooth