toolmaking
noun
tool·mak·ing
ˈtül-ˌmā-kiŋ 
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Based on a new analysis of stone toolmaking, two researchers are arguing that the ability is relatively recent, dating to just 600,000 years ago.
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
The researchers use a number of examples: the toolmaking done by our primate relatives, asking unskilled humans to make a stone tool, and random chipping of rocks.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
But big brains require a lot of cooling, and so developing a robust cooling system was important to advancing other skills, such as toolmaking.
—Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
And so, too, are the tools from the cave, which were made using the Mousterian toolmaking techniques that the European Neanderthals shared amongst themselves.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
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John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
The researchers use a number of examples: the toolmaking done by our primate relatives, asking unskilled humans to make a stone tool, and random chipping of rocks.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
But big brains require a lot of cooling, and so developing a robust cooling system was important to advancing other skills, such as toolmaking.
—Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
And so, too, are the tools from the cave, which were made using the Mousterian toolmaking techniques that the European Neanderthals shared amongst themselves.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
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“Toolmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toolmaking. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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