toolmaking

noun

tool·​mak·​ing ˈtül-ˌmā-kiŋ How to pronounce toolmaking (audio)
: the action, process, or art of making tools
also : the trade of a toolmaker

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for toolmaking 

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of toolmaking was in 1848

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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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