The First Tools in History - Blades Tools and Weapons #Shorts

Tool production is one of the core features that define human species.
At the very beginning, people in the paleolithic started by producing choppers - simple stone tools made from cobbles.

Following that, came one of the most prominent tools of the stone age: hand-ax. It had both a cutting edge and a sharp point.
These weren't just weapons. It was a multi-tool capable of chopping, digging, skinning and more.

The most common resource for the creation of stone tools were silicate rocks like chert and tuff. Both are very sturdy and have conchoidal fractures.

The process to produce useful, sharp tools from stone is called flint knapping, with the most basic technique being flaking or direct percussion. First the top of the cobble or nodule is removed, in order to create a flat surface to strike and chip off the smaller flakes. This could have been done either with a strong hammer (stone) or soft hammer (antler, wood). The recovered flakes had sharp, but very fragile edges, which were then further processed and retouched until it reached the intended form. Retouched edges were less sharp, but also more resistant to damage and chipping.
While this technique produced good hand axes, it failed to go as far as creating thin, delicate knife blades.

Sources of quality flint were sought after and it's presumed that some communities would travel up to 160 km to obtain the proper material. With time they became smaller and more sophisticated.

Another early weapon was a spear. These could be made entirely out of wood, be it spruce, pine or yew, or have a stone spearhead tied at the top with either tree resin, plant or animal fiber, such as sinew or leather strips.
Spears could be used both by throwing and up close.
The Schöningen spears, found in Germany, are between 337,000 and 300,000 years old and have been found with the bones of horses that people of old used to hunt with them.

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[ninjadave]

Stone tools weren't only made by humans, we learned how to make stone weapons from the other people, after Cain first used a rock to murder his brother. It was those other people from the land of Nod, what today science teaches were the Homo Habilis, earlier hominids even proto humans. I still find the artifacts made today of stone from the seemingly primitive technology of the Serpent Culture. The tribe locally known as the Red Hand clan is one example of the believed to be early hominids surviving into the modern world we live. They are the hair covered giants what science called the Homo Troglodytes, before what became discovered of Neanderthals and then the Denisovans. Now there's another recently discovered type of early hominid DNA discovered in some modern Africans. But science is still searching for that missing link, to try and suggest we're all evolved from other primates and animals. What became known as the special people from the history of Clark County Indiana, became the Adena Culture of Anthropology. It wasn't until they discovered bronze age artifacts in burial mounds, that the metal was tested and analyzed to find the copper had come from upper Michigan, but the only source for Tin at that time came from the mines in Cornwall U.K. It's interesting too that stone tools have been found all over England and the U.K. and that there's similar style mounds even around Stonehenge as with the circular so called forts of the Adena Culture. Those who were upwards of 10 feet tall, having red hair, yet science still doesn't understand how they built the stone megalithic monuments or pyramids even. Here we simply call those people, Bigfoot or Sasquatch, but in other parts of the world they're called Green Man, or Wild Men. It's the discovery of those wild men of the woods who still make stone tools, even using two stones together to not only crack open nuts for food, but used to signal others of my presence when I'm researching the areas they live. I've even seen from where they used pieces of broken glass bottles to cut their hair with, that the glass was used with other stones. I've even seen stone carved bowls used by them, as apart of their ceremonial practices and offerings at grave side locations. The Edomites are the Homo Troglodytes of science from history that are still here to this day.