Use of Tools
Homo ergaster used more diverse and sophisticated stone tools than its predecessor, Homo habilis. H. ergaster refined the inherited Oldowan developing the first Acheulean bifacial axes: while the use of Acheulean tools began ca. 1.6 million years ago, the line of H. erectus diverged some 200,000 years before the general innovation of Acheulean technology. Thus the Asian migratory descendants of H. ergaster made no use of any Acheulean technology.
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“Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.”
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