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Optional Activities
Optional Activities
  • Stone Tools + Fire Connection: The same flint used to make stone tools also makes sparks when struck against iron pyrite. Research (don’t attempt unsupervised) how early humans used flint to start fires. What does it mean that the same material served multiple critical survival purposes?
  • Oldowan vs Acheulean Compare: Find images of Oldowan tools (2.6 Mya, simple flakes) and Acheulean handaxes (1.76 Mya, carefully shaped teardrop form). Draw both side by side and write one sentence explaining what improved mental abilities the Acheulean design required.
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