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SEAN CARROLL (VOICEOVER):. A smooth rock is offered a side and also the. training course of life in the world has actually altered for life. This was the very first. action on the trip to our technical existing. Though tool usage is. not uniquely human, the class of. our devices, and also our degree of dependence upon them, collections. us in addition to various other species.So, when did
human tool. making start, and why? And what does it tell us about. the evolution of our ancestors? Like fossils, rock. devices can be dated by geochemical evaluation of the. sediment layer in which they were hidden. The earliest yet found, was. in East African sediments created 2.5 million years back. The virtually 2-million-year-old. debris of Tanzania'' s Olduvai Canyon were first made renowned. by the thousands of stone devices located there by Louis. and Mary Leakey. Paleontologist Tim. White has accessibility to a variety of. Olduvai stone tools at the College of. California, Berkeley. Tim, these are actual. tools from Olduvai Chasm. TIM WHITE: All-time low. of Olduvai Canyon. SEAN CARROLL: So, these. are 1.8 million years of ages. TIM WHITE: That'' s right. SEAN CARROLL: And they. were made by someone. TIM WHITE: That'' s right. SEAN CARROLL: However. in the beginning glance, you can easily walk past these. and claim, they resemble a rock.How do you
know this was made. purposefully by somebody? TIM WHITE: Well, there. are 2 factors you recognize that they'' re rock tools. Top, they'' re found in. As well as secondly, this sharp. side as well as these marks. Because, as you can see it'' s. a rounded, water-worn cobble that has actually been damaged by duplicated. strikes of a hammer rock. This is called a core. And what is struck. from the core, are smaller shards of. rock called flakes. These kinds of devices are. where modern technology begins, rock device technology developed. to develop sharp edges.And those sharp
edges. are used to eliminate meat from big mammal carcasses. SEAN CARROLL: The. carcass, like what? TIM WHITE: Like a giraffe. Like a wildebeest. Huge mammals that are a big,. large, abundant source of fat and healthy protein for things. As well as for a hominid, without. the rate and also dexterity of another predator, it. would certainly be generally self-destructive. You'' d be coming to be a snack. Unless you can come close to the. carcass, get rid of the cells, and after that make use of. the bones for what exists inside the fatty marrow. SEAN CARROLL: So you have to reduce. your method in with the flesh. And afterwards, how do you. TIM WHITE: You damage the bone. We have bones that have traces. of these reducing activities as well as traces of the. hammering tasks. This is an actual fossil. from Olduvai Gorge.And it shows that some. hominid affected the shaft with a hammer rock and also developed. this scar on the inside. That is evidence of. access to marrow . And also marrow is a really. abundant nutritional resource for these early hominids. SEAN CARROLL: So the. mix devices, diet, as well as I think of ingenuity,. brains, a little bit, both in terms of what you. require to do to figure out when you can go. out after the kill, accepting other hominids.All that '
s taking area. This is coming to be a. really different creature than its ancestors. Stone devices are datable proof. of advanced behaviors. Much more durable than the. bones of their manufacturers, they reveal a. essential shift in the lives of our. early forefathers. TIM WHITE: These devices. represent a development of the behavior capabilities. of these organisms. They'' re no longer foraging. for origins and bulbs and a few fruits in. the trees, they'' re out taking on. predators that can consume them. SEAN CARROLL (VOICEOVER):. That'' s a very various type of primate. A primate whose tool. making offspring would alter the. face of the earth. SEAN CARROLL (VOICEOVER):. Device usage is. SEAN CARROLL: And they. SEAN CARROLL: The. Rock tools are datable proof.
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