![]() Or, if anyone did, he didn't share his design with others, or it never caught on. No one came up with a new design for nearly one million years. He taught it to his tribemates, and perhaps some of them helped to refine his designs. At some point, 2.6 million years ago, some human started to make simple rock tools. The guy who thinks it up, and maybe a few other guys who devise it and refine it (if the original idea guy doesn't do all that himself - and he may). Instead, one man comes up with an idea, and either builds it himself, or sets off a chain of competitors who race to be the first to build the thing (in which case you have the collaboration of the guy who proposes the idea, a few guys who try to build it, and one or more who actually succeeds).Įssentially though, you can boil the invention down to a handful of people. ![]() It is rarely (or never) collaborative across an entire society an entire society does not invent something. They were devised in Europe and the Levant about 35,000 years ago. Microliths were small stones used in composite tools, fastened to a haft. Aurignacian tools have been found throughout Europe and the Levant, and are believed to have emerged in the Levant around 43,000 years ago. Fine bladed stone tools, along with worked bone and antler points, struck from prepared cores rather than crude flakes. Mousterian tools date to 315,000 years ago, devised by Neanderthal man in Europe. Fine-pointed rock tools that may have relied on greater grip strength to create. Acheulean tools first date to 1.76 million years ago, devised by Homo erectus in Western and Southern Africa. The axe is the most notable example of this type of tool. Biface rock tools, with more complex design than Oldowan tools. ![]() Oldowan tools emerged 2.6 million years ago, devised by either Homo habilis or Homo erectus in Northern Africa. Simple core form rocks, used for things like chopping. We know of five different modes of human stone tool-making that pre-date the Neolithic (the New Stone Age). Yet there are interesting cases from history. But, we should think, eventually, it would have been. Would it have been five years later? 10 years later? 100 years later? Impossible to know. Because in truth, had there been no Gutenberg, the printing press would have been discovered in (or imported to) Europe - eventually. ![]()
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