Explore the Olduwan and Acheulean toolmaking traditions, learn about Stone Age technology, and read about contemporary research on stone tools and tool making. Finally, take a quiz about stone tool and toolmakers.

The Olduwan Tool Industry

http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/koobi/oldowan.html

Think about: How simple are Olduwan tools?

Acheulean Handaxes

http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/acheul.html

Think about: What is the major difference between Olduwan and Acheulean tools?

What is involved in making a stone tool? Visit this site

Stone Age Reference Collection

http://www.hf.uio.no/iakk/roger/lithic/sarc.html

Think about: What types of stone were used to make tools?

The Stone Age Institute

http://www.stoneageinstitute.org/c_research.shtml#Field

Think about: What kinds of research about stone tools and toolmaking are currently being done?

1	The oldest Olduwan sites are dated at approximately
	A)	1 million years ago
	B)	1.5 million years ago
	C)	2.5 million years ago
	D)	3 million years ago
2	The primary objective of Nicholas Toth and other holistic researchers is to
	A)	learn about early hominins from the tools they made
	B)	classify Olduwan tools according to the way they were made
	C)	understand how the size of raw materials affects Olduwan technology
	D)	discover when hominins first made and used stone tools
3	The earliest Acheulean tools date from
	A)	500,000 years ago in Europe
	B)	1 million years ago in Europe
	C)	1 millon years ago in Africa
	D)	1.4 million years ago in Africa
4	The most important characteristic of Acheulean tools is that most of them
	A)	are made of flint
	B)	show bifacial flaking
	C)	are older than 500,000 years
	D)	have been found along with evidence of large-scale hunting
5	Important proliferations of Acheulean technology occurred approximately
	A)	1.4 million and 1 million years ago
	B)	1 million and 800,000 years ago
	C)	800,000 and 500,000 years ago
	D)	500,000 and 100,000 years ago
6	Write a summary of one of the research studies described on the Stone Age Institute website. What are the researchers' goals, and what methods are they using?