Chopping tool

Chopping tools mainly occur in the Olduwan (2.9 to 1.6 million years ago).

The oldest object in the British Museum is a chopping tool found in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.

Usually naturally occurring rather flat pebbles were used to produce a chopping tool.

The chopping tool helped assist hunters gather the meat, especially from large animals that were hard to carry back to the location they were staying at, and make it edible for them to consume.

Many of the thick sharp pieces were used as small knives to do very light cutting tasks.

The flakes were a very important part of everyday life just like the chopping tool.

The resources used to make many variations of the chopping tool were present in much of the world.