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From Hand to Handle - The First Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
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From Hand to Handle - The First Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
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Mankind's utter dependency on technology extends back approximately
three million years to the first stone tools, but it was only with
the innovation of hafting, some 300,000 years ago, that technology
took its first modern form and revolutionized our social and
economic lives. The development of handles and shafts, which were
added to some tools previously made of single materials and
hand-held, made the tools not only more efficient but improved
their makers' chances of survival by making the quest for food more
productive. This volume brings together evidence for the cognitive,
social, and technological foundations necessary for the development
of hafting to form a speculative theory about this revolutionary
innovation. The creation of tools with handles required
considerable planning based on an expert understanding of the
properties of the raw materials involved, a form of early
engineering. Yet it was the ability to envisage the final,
integrated form of the tool which underpinned the remarkable
novelty of hafting, one which had massive implications for the
human species and which laid the foundations for the technology we
rely on today.
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