Advanced Stone Tools
Refinement of stone tool technology, including pressure flaking, polished stone tools, microliths, and more specialized implements.
Core metadata
- ID: advanced_stone_tools
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -1760000 (millennium)
- Region: West Turkana, Kenya / early Acheulean stone-tool traditions in Africa
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Bronze Casting Molds (bronze_casting_molds)
- Latrines & Waste Pits (latrines_and_waste_pits)
- Leather Tanning (leather_tanning)
- Masonry (masonry)
- Obsidian Blade Trade (obsidian_blade_trade)
- Plant Domestication (plant_domestication)
- Primitive Surgery (e.g., Trepanation) (primitive_surgery_trepanation)
- Prospecting (prospecting)
- Shell Bead Drilling (shell_bead_drilling)
- Sickle Harvesting Tools (sickle_harvesting_tools)
- Refined Dugout Canoes (wooden_dugout_canoe_refinement)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- An earlier origin for the Acheulian (Nature, 2011, primary_paper) • Supports: node, maturity
- The origins of the Acheulean: past and present perspectives on a major transition in human evolution (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2016, review) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 1
- Average edge confidence: 75%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 1
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Tool Making (stone_tool_making) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Stone Tool Making is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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