Stone Tools: The First Ever Invention
Patented: History of Inventions
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The Importance of Stone Tools
"Stone tools could be symbolic artifacts from the very first moment these creatures were making them," he says. "It doesn't occur to people. These things are like trail markers, and part of it is that they're custom thinking of them as waste or as badges." If I taught you how to make stone tools tomorrow, can I just tell tools you'd make were different from the laws I've made? He adds: Your stone tools would say something about you.
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