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Please tell me. What was the first tool created by humans?
It was stone chopping tools, right?
It wasn't sticks, yeah?
If it was sticks, we have no way of knowing, because sticks don't generally last millions of years.
You use them to type. :^)
Probably sticks,then rocks.Probably both,but rock carving took a while to start.
It was the ancient rocket pyramids that the great alien race of negus gave us
but then we betrayed them
It was umbilical cords.
KOJIMA DOES IT AGAIN
In what way would sticks have been used as a first tool then?
For fire starting?
Before stone tools?
Really?
>>1301065
I say it was bones or maybe teeth. Of what animal I don't know.
>>1301096
Hitting things.Unearthing roots-bugs-delicacies.Not much,but still a tool.
>>1301065
Sticks or stones. But tool use predates humanity so it's kind of a moot point.
>>1301101
>using a blunt club to hunt
Really?
Wouldn't they have used sharp / flat stones to dig things first, though?
And what is a tool anyway? It is something fashioned by mankind (artifically) for a purpose
Therefore stone tools were first
>>1301108
Depends on the prey.Small mammals like rats-rabbits can probably go down to a stick.Catching them would probably be a pain in the ass.
fire
>>1301131
>Sneaking up on small prey with a blunt club to hunt
REALLY?!
>>1301108
Use sticks to slap fruit from trees or stick them into ant mounds for delicious ants.
>>1301137
That's shit that human ancestors did though
And there's no proof that they did those things before coming up with stone tools
Also, they didn't fashion a stick using emergent human intellect; they found sticks and applied them to a purpose; as opposed to stone tools, for which they found materials and crafted a purpose
>>1301092
Kek
The Bible
>>1301149
>Break branch from tree
>Strip out leaves and extraneous branches
>Eat ants
That's a fashioned tool. Unless you want to make an arbitrary distinction that rules out sticks as a tool and an additional distinction for what constitutes humanity.
>>1301174
Be it broken or found the distinction is the same: a stick is an encountered object and in no way crafted by early human intelligence
>>1301181
So...a rock cutter isn't a tool?
Anything made out of pressed metal?
>>1301184
A rock cutter is a tool as it had to have an edge fashioned upon it by human intellect (artificially)
If you can't realize this...what use is discussion?
>>1301188
>Human intellect
You throw this around a lot but fashioned stone tool usage predates Homo.
>>1301201
Then why are you arguing the point of sticks if stones predate mankind?
>>1301210
But we are talking about the first tools created by mankind? Not found, created? By man?
>>1301212
Alright. So what I'm getting from you is what is the first uniquely human tool used right? That rules out sticks, stones, clay, and maybe domesticated plants and animals. Next up the tech tree is copper metal working.
>>1301237
>Man created clay
Man FASHIONED clay for a purpose long after he fashioned edges onto stone tools
man did not domesticate anything until long after the stone age
And we've covered sticks already
If you really think clay came before stone tools... holy shit read a damn book
So not even /his/ can really answer this question?
a stick wasnt "created", but you can argue that a stick became a tool because erectus saw a usage for it as a tool, but didnt neccesary, or didnt at all create it by doing sumtin.
A stone bind togheter with a rock is a tool, a created one, that doesnt occur naturally
>>1301095
>getting this joke
8/8
>>1301242
Then I guess it's clay by your definition. Unsatisfying isn't it.
the only logical answer if you really know human nature
>>1301253
Tools predate history and humanities.
