
Vol 1 Ep 5 - Lower paleolithic stone tools ( Olduvai Gorge )
History of the World podcast
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The History of Stone Tool Construction
Hard hammer percussion is a technique of prehistoric stone tool construction. Lewis called them older wand tools, named after the oldevoi gorge from which they were recovered. Believe that our ancestors were doing this at aldevi gorge two point five million years ago. The time period seems to be in the transitional period between astrolepithesines and homo habelis.
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