| Term | Definition |
|---|
| What were flint tools used for? | To fashion tools from softer materials like wood, bones, reindeer antler, bison horns, mammoth tusks, and other teeth to make for example pins and needles and barbed harpoon tips for fishing |
| How were hafted tools (hammers, axes, and tipped spears and arrows) made? | by stringing stone or bone implements to wooden shafts |
| What are spear-throwers? | hand-held sticks of wood or antlers, notched at one end (function as extended arms to impart more energy on thrown spears) |
| What were bow and arrows useful for? | bringing down game (and unfriendly neighbors) from a safe distance but with great precision |
| What were animal hides and tendons used for? | Making clothes, to close off cave openings against weather, to make shoes, backpacks, bags, boxes, etc. |
| What were wood and hides used for? | Making large houses |
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