Human beings first made tools in the Old Stone Age. You may think making a stone tool would be easy. Dietrich Stout, an anthropology professor at Emory University, wrote in the journal Scientific American that making a hand axe took him 300 hours. Professor Stout monitored his brain activity during the tool-making process. He said that human beings may have developed communication skills by talking to each other when they made stone tools.
Hanna Jeong Staff Reporter
1. How long did it take professor Stout to make a hand axe?
1. Have you seen the stone tools from the Old Stone Age? Do you think the primitive people would have made them easily?
Human beings first made tools in the Old Stone Age. You may think making a stone tool would be easy. Dietrich Stout, an anthropology professor at Emory University, wrote in the journal Scientific American that making a hand axe took him 300 hours. Professor Stout monitored his brain activity during the tool-making process. He said that human beings may have developed communication skills by talking to each other when they made stone tools.
