Humans use tools to do work! It’s what separates us from the animals! Except for crows… and honeybees… and dolphins… octopuses… well, regardless, tools are great and so is this episode!
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Chatelaines
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-killer-mobile-device-for-victorian-women/
https://toolbelts.com/tool-belt-history/
https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/History/cms/history
New Caledonian crows
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0278
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php
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Oldest stone tools
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14464
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/world-s-oldest-stone-tools-discovered-kenya
https://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/exhibit/oldowan-and-acheulean-stone-tools