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# Tools and Culture ## Hominin | Hominin | Tool Culture | Description | Image | |----...

# Tools and Culture ## Hominin | Hominin | Tool Culture | Description | Image | |---------------------------|------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------| | Australopithecines & Homo Habilis | Oldowan Tools | - Basic pebble tools - Choppers, scrapers, flakes and chisels - Used to smash open bones - Precision grip must have been employed with one round edge | | | Homo Erectus | Acheulean Tools | - Hand axes - Teardrop in shape flaked all around the edges - Worked on both sides - helped hunting | | | Homo Neanderthal | Mousterisn Industries | - Stones trimmed into disc-shaped core and struck by another piece to produce flakes - Aided in clothes making for cooler climates | | | Homo Sapiens | Aurignacian Culture | - Rectangular 'stone' blade tool with one or two sharp edges - Made by pressure flaking - Attached to branches to make axes | | | | Solutrean Culture | - Laurel leaf or willow leaf shaped flake stone tools - Intricate flaking on every edge - Used as spears or cutting | | | | Magdalenian Culture | - Usually pointed, sometimes with barbs - Included fish hooks, spearheads, harpoons and needles - Burin, chisel like cutter was used to make | |