Tool Culture - practice answer

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More efficent and diverse - harness a variety of resources

allowed for specialisation

bigger brain --> better tools --> more nutients -->

fire --> avoid predation/more nutrients --> better survival

Use the information gathered by each group to then answer the following exam question:

The advance of the use of told and fire had many effecs of the evolution of hominins.

Discuss the likely impact that the different tools and fire had on the different hominin species, and the evolutionary trend that can be linked to these developments.

In your answer:

Identify the three tool cultures as shown in the diagram above, and link a species of hominin to each tool type

Explain the trend shown in the development of the tool cultres above, and how this shows a progression in the cultural evolution of the hominins

discuss the likely effects that fire and the use and development of tools had on the biological evolution of the hominins.

The tools above can be identified as being from the Mousterian (figure 1),