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—Simple stone tools which they used to chop—Made stone axes for chopping and for digging —Made fire! Caused by lighting or volcanoes
Humans had learned to make tools of chipped stone, but had not yet learned to make them from metals.
Developmental stages in prehistoric human beings are generally differentiated by the types of tools they used. For example, stone tools were first used in the Stone Age.
The tools were made of iron and steel, as opposed to bronze in the Bronze Age and stone in the Stone Age which preceded it.
The earliest tools of uncivilized societies were those of peoples engaged in hunting and gathering. Studies by archaeologists have uncovered such early tools used for digging in the earth and crude weapons carved from stone.