tool-making
- a word derived from tool-maker.
Example Sentences
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Yet, according to researchers who recently analyzed famous cave paintings in France, we've known for a long time that Neanderthals are capable of tool-making, art, perhaps even music.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2023
Homo Erectus developed more advanced stone tool-making than had Australopithecus, and survived until about 200,000 years ago, by which time the earliest Homo sapiens – humans – had long since evolved alongside them.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
Archaeologists analyzed more than 7,200 stone tools and found that this sophisticated tool-making technique, called Levallois, began replacing clunkier and more primitive stone tools between 449,000 and 321,000 years ago.
From The Verge ● Jan. 31, 2018
As the theory goes, our hands were freed up for things like tool-making and gesturing to one another.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2015
Yet tool-making is of little consequence unless it is coupled with the ability to cooperate with many others.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
