The story of the first human tool: the humble container

The story of the first human tool: the humble container

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 years ago. Columnist Michael Marshall explores how slings, ostrich eggs and wooden trays helped our ancestors survive

Discovering Humanity's First Tools: The Evolution of Simple Containers

Oil Lamp Discovered in Lascaux Cave, France Sémhur CC BY-SA 4.0 Subscribe to Our Human Story, a newsletter exploring the revolutionary findings in archaeology, delivered to your inbox monthly. In the iconic opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, the first tool is presented as a club, used not only for hunting prey but also in [...] The post Discovering Humanity’s First Tools: The Evolution of Simple Containers appeared first on Mondo News.