Examples of toolmaking

• The book surveys archaeological evidence for the origins of man and traces the development of toolmaking and the spread of agriculture.

• Most theories see language as helping how tools are used, and toolmaking and tool use as learned.

• The above considerations do not, however, imply that symmetry has played no part in the process of toolmaking.

• Wolpert thinks that asymmetry may have evolved in the context of complex motor skills such as toolmaking because it permits cooperation rather than competition between the hemispheres.

• The step up to staged toolmaking (first shape a core, then knock off flakes) at 400,000 years ago is far more impressive as evidence of enhanced cognition.

• Indeed, there is no compelling archaeological reason to grant toolmaking any special place in the selective forces directing the first three million years of human cognitive evolution.

• He had to understand electronics; he had to do some plumbing, carpentry and toolmaking.

• We have worked with the toolmaking industry to encourage firms to benchmark themselves against the best in the world.

• Toolmaking to-day is skilled and laborious work, and these automatic machines will need skilled men to make them, skilled men to operate them, and skilled men to maintain them.

• This was followed by a sudden flowering of fine toolmaking, sophisticated weaponry, sculpture, cave painting, body ornaments, and long-distance trade.

• The themes that united these various lines of business were the crafts of toolmaking and instrument-making, which have often overlapped technologically.

• These experiences in toolmaking, metrology, and manufacturing steeped him in the 19th-century zeitgeist of interchangeability.

• Mechanical engineering and toolmaking were the main industries practised within the town.

• This form of toolmaking is a topic of interest in anthropology.