TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barham, Lawrence.
TI  - From hand to handle
SN  - 9780199604715
U1  - 930.12BAR 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Paleolithic period
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-350) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -