Browsing the "Tools" Tag

Making Stone Age tools out of bamboo

April 11th, 2011 | by Sevaan Franks

Experimental archaeologists are testing the theory that Stone Age people living in East Asia created tools out of wood and


The Roman “Swiss Army knife”

November 8th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, is home to a Roman multi-tool, dating back to A.D. 201-300, which folds out


Language and toolmaking evolved together

November 5th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks

Apparently, the boost that tool-making brought to brain power allowed humans to develop language. Stone-age humans mastered the art of