WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What tools were used during the Stone Age? A variety of tools were used in the Stone Ages including blades, hand-axes, knives, scrapers, points, awls, needles, and fishing hooks.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some stone tools were used to cut meat and bone, scrape bark from trees, cut into hides i.e., animal skins and chop fruits and roots. Some were used as handles. Some were used to make spears and arrows for hunting.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stone tools may be made of either ground stone or knapped stone, the latter fashioned by a flintknapper. Knapped stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert or flint, radiolarite, chalcedony, obsidian, basalt, and quartzite via a process known as lithic reduction.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Stone Age In the Paleolithic period (roughly 2.5 million years ago to 10, 000 B.C.), early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.