1) Tools have been important for hunting, cooking, and ornament making throughout human history. Early humans used found tools like sharpened rocks while later groups like Homo habilis learned to make basic stone tools. 2) Successive groups like Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and Cro-Magnon humans developed more advanced tool-making abilities and invented tools such as fire, blades, axes, bows and arrows, and traps. 3) Modern humans utilized all previously developed tool types and had the most sophisticated hunting tools and cooking implements, such as bows and arrows, knives, and fire for cooking. The development of tools allowed human groups to evolve in their abilities to hunt and survive.

1. Tools By: Nick B

2. Introduction Before our time tools were very important they were used to hunt, cook, and to make ornaments. They weren’t always man made some tools were as simple as a rock that had been sharpened by hitting another rock against it. Some examples of hunting tools are knives, bow and arrow, and spears. There aren’t as many cooking tools but one example is a knife. Knives are used in many different situations, two of them being cooking and hunting.

3. Athralopithecus afrensis This group of people only used found tools, in other words they didn’t know how to make any tools. This group did not hunt so they didn’t need any kind of spear. They didn’t have knives so they had to use their teeth as a tool, and rip their food with their teeth. Since they didn’t have tools they might have use twigs and sticks.

4. Homo habilis These people were smart enough to make tools. Their tools were very basic they included stone tools and weapons. They didn’t know how to make fire but they would use it if they could find a forest fire or something. Evidence that they didn’t have fire was that they ate raw meet.

5. Homo Erectus The Homo Erectus people knew how to make fire, and because they knew how to make fire they were the first to leave Africa. These people were smarter in the way that they knew how to make blades, and spears. They made there blades from rocks and bones. Some examples of the tools they used included stone axes, spears, and knives.

6. Homo Sapiens neanderthalensis These humans were smarter than any of the groups before them, they invented specialized cutting tools and scrapping tools. They invented scrapping and cutting tools by chipping and making pointy rocks. They also knew how to make fire and left Africa. They were very smart and good hunters they used spears and knives.

7. Homo sapiens Cro-Magnon These people invented a very important hunting tool called the bow and arrow, this tool was such an amazing invention because hunters didn’t have to get that close to an animal they could shoot it from a distance. Another thing they invented were traps, these traps were very useful because they could leave them and look at them later they. Another thing that got them food was fishing, these people knew how to fish.

8. Homo Sapiens Sapiens These people were bright they had all the tools all the other groups had Some examples are bow and arrow, fire, knives, spears, and traps. Some cooking tools they used include knives and fire, fire would be used as a stove. They hunted animals with knives bow and arrows ect....

9. Concluding Slide Tools are almost a must need thing they can do so many things to help suck as hunt and cook and even make ornaments. As you can see each group of people had some different tools for example the Cro-Magnon had the bow and arrows first, while the Homo Erectus was the first to make fire. But overall tools was very interesting to study, because I not only got to hear all the different tools but I also heard about the different hunting methods that were very intoresting.

10. Bibliography for information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_habilis http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/lifescience/physicalanthropology/prehistoricman/homohabilis/homohabilis.htm http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0015-neanderthals-and-tools.php notes

11. Bibliography for pictures http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://brattahlid.tripod.com/tools1-olduvai.jpg&imgrefurl=http://brattahlid.tripod.com/sw3-74webb.htm&usg=__c4c08nv1RnEYb530PA5Azvbvouc=&h=170&w=250&sz=9&hl=en&start=0&sig2=chPu3IKzsbllfAGVLQTW4w&zoom=1&tbnid=tm-YfssRFNLw0M:&tbnh=113&tbnw=146&ei=iAX0TNL4A4q8sAOR2rW-CQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhomo%2Bhabilis%2Btools%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2ACGW_enCA349%26biw%3D1362%26bih%3D532%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=757&vpy=130&dur=15&hovh=136&hovw=200&tx=117&ty=64&oei=iAX0TNL4A4q8sAOR2rW-CQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=26&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0

12. Bibliography For pictures Continued http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/2198536454/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/2501314985/