stone and bone tool usage pervaded a great variety of other manufacturing activities and almost certainly produced both division of labor and social hierarchies based on toolmaking skills and personal or household possession of costly or precious artifacts. This is where we see the first artistic style in tool making. Another important innovation of this period was the invention of Net Hunting. "Like historically known net hunters, everyone - men, women, and children - probably participated, frightening animals with loud noises to drive them to where hunters were stationed with their nets. In this way, large amounts of meat could be amassed in ways that did not put a premium on speed and strength(Haviland 258." Another improvement in hunting was made with the invention of the bow and arrow. The greatest advantage of the bow was that it allowed the hunter to be 20 or so meters away from his prey and still have better accuracy then he would if he was 10 meters away throwing his spear. The highly developed tool kit of Cro-Magnons included tools for use during different seasons, and regional variations. "Only when the upper paleolithic cultures burst onto the scene 35,000 years ago did innovation and arbitrary order become pervasive (Leaky 210)."In conclusion, one can see that the development of tools took place over the course of sever hundred millennia's. Starting with the very crude tools of Homo Habilis and their oldowan technique of making tools, all the way up to the more modern Cro-Magnon people of the Homo Sapiens and their pressure flaking methods. Every single step throughout time has been vitally important to the production of newer tools such as power drills and power saws. Without the original technological advances of early hominids we would have no understanding of any prehistoric life. Their technological advances helped us to create more efficient tools which allow us to research these ancient cultures. As one...
