Stevens Institute of Technology
Man’s technological ascent began in earnest in what is known as the Neolithic period (“New stone age”). The invention of polished stone axes was a major advance because it allowed forest clearance on a large scale to create farms. Additionally, children could contribute labor to the raising of crops more readily than they could to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. To make a stone tool, a “core” of hard stone with specific flaking properties was struck with a hammerstone.
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