Tool Making In Early Asia

 

There has been a recent discovery from archeologists that shows Tool Making skills from hominids, members of the evolutionary family that includes modern day humans, from over 2 million years ago from Asia and Africa. It is a recent discovery to find these Tool Making skills in Pakistan as no hominid bones have been found in Asia before but finding these tools raises new implications.

 

The most popular tool making being in Asia was Homo habilis, a direct ancestor of modern day humans, veering as far east as Pakistan. It is also thought by archeologists that the tool making skills belonged to H. erectus. H. erectus is a species which was derived from Homo hablis and has been found all over Africa and Asia. Another theory is that the tools came from the Paranthropus line, this line of species is now extinct but it is very possible these belonged to them as it has recently been discovered that their tool making skills were more advanced than originally thought. In 1983 a group of British archeologist started searching for artifacts in Riwat, Pakistan. After heavy rainfall a small waterfall was created which over time eroded the surfaces where they found several artifacts. Much inspection and investigation has been put into finding out where the artifacts came from and it has now been revealed that five of the tools found are from hominids. There are obvious signs of tool making states archeologist Robin W. Dennell of the University of Sheffield, England, with key features of flaked surfaces, ripple marks, cracks and protrusions, which clearly have come from the result of impact in the tool making process. Dennell further adds that at this time it is difficult to know the exact reasons why the hominids wanted the flaked stones and for what purpose. From these findings Dennell is focusing on sites in northern Pakistan to hopefully finally determine which hominid species was tool making the 2 million year old stone artifacts.