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Stone Tools: The First Ever Invention

Patented: History of Inventions

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Introduction

For millions of years, stone tools were our primary piece of technology. And with their help, we survived and thrived through ice ages. They became a defining part of what it meant to be human. John Shea is an anthropologist who's been studying them for four decades. He has made his own stone tools himself since he was a teenager.

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