Paradigm in Palaeolithic Forms

Plate 1A Stone Age Lithic tools1B Bone and Lithic Tools		1C Upper Palaeolithic Period

(Source: http://www.google.co.in/search?tbm=isch&q=Prehistoric+Tool+design&hl=en& ; Oct. 22, 2012)

Early homo-sapiens went through most difficult time and challenges. It had to face every step to test every phenomenon. Imagine, man took almost two million years to move from razor-sharp stones to a hand-held stone axe. The availability of lithic stone material is an important issue in design consideration. The availability of lithe quality determines the formal(mobile) and informal(static) tool design. High quality lithe has produced much fine quality tools. In the recent years anthropological research has established that the quality of formal tools are developed better tools by mobile community condition contrast to lesser active community. The exposure and the challenges of the new condition have helped man to design and develop finer formal tools.  The availability of lithic material and mobility has produced the types of tools. Mobility of a group certainly is exposed to wide range of geographical and other associations that would make them smarter and more productive. Prof. William Jr. Andrefsky, writes, “The formal design of stone tools is closely linked to the various tasks or functions for which tools are employed. The tasks may relate to the production and maintenance of houses, tools, and clothing, or food procurement, such as hunting and butchering. Traditionally archaeologists have focused upon these task-oriented activities when considering tool design constraints.”
(Ref. William Jr. Andrefsky,Washington State University ‘Lithic analysis and prehistoric sedentism’ pp. 224-244, Pub: Cambridge University Press; 2005)