Stone Tool Making
Crafting basic tools from stone through percussion flaking (e.g., hand axes, choppers, scrapers).
Core metadata
- ID: stone_tool_making
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -3300000 (millennium)
- Region: West Turkana, Kenya
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
None.
Dependents
- Advanced Stone Tools (advanced_stone_tools)
- Sibudu Bow-and-Arrow Use (archery)
- Art (art)
- Atlatl Spear Throwers (atlatl_spear_throwers)
- Basic Rope Making (basic_rope_making)
- Bone Awls & Needles (bone_awls_needles)
- Bone Tool Making (bone_tool_making)
- Hafted Stone-Point Spears (composite_tools)
- Upper Paleolithic Grinding Stones (grinding_stones_querns)
- Basic Hunting & Gathering (hunting_gathering_basic)
- Mining (mining)
- Ochre Pigment Processing (ochre_pigment_processing)
- Pigment Creation (pigment_creation)
- Sling Projectiles (sling_projectiles)
- Stone Grinding Slabs (stone_grinding_slabs)
- Water Carrying Techniques (water_carrying_techniques)
- Basic Woodworking (woodworking_basic)
Fields
Field lanes
- Materials Science & Manufacturing: Foundations
Node sources
- 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya (Nature, 2015, primary_paper) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
No prerequisite edge evidence is yet recorded.
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No prerequisite edges recorded. | |||||
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