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Question 18 Exercise 7: Stone Tool Technology Review the photo in the Image Library on p. 453 and answer the questions in this exercise. (2001) What type of tool is this? O Direct Percussion O Chopper O Hammer Stone O Flake

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Exercise 7

Question no 18:

The correct answer is

B) chopper

Archaeologists define a chopper as a pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of flakes from one side of a stone.

19) the correct answer is

D) oldowan

20) the correct answer is

D) Australopithecus garhi

The name of Australopithecus garhi, garhi meaning "surprise", a tool-using Australopithecine was discovered in 1996.

Exercise 7:

Question 1

The correct answer is

This tool is a Oldowan tool. This type of tools is is believed to be the oldest stone tool .

Question 2

The correct answer is

the features that led to the identification of this as an Oldowan tool are that Oldowan tool are stone cores with flakes removed from part of the surface creating a sharpened edge that was used for cutting, chopping, and scraping ;

Question 3

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Oldovan tools are used for chopping , cutting and scrapping using the sharpened side of the tool as shown in the figure .

Question 4

The current anthropological thinking and researches believes that Oldowan tools were made and used by late Australopithecus and early Homo habilis is also considered "skillful" because that they were the earliest tool-using human ancestor.

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