March
17
/ 2022
A new study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface has claimed that early man’s greatest invention was actually not the wheel but the tool handle! With an impact on transport, agriculture, and industry, the wheel is often hailed as humankind’s greatest scientific revolution, but researchers from the University of Liverpool don’t necessarily agree. They posit that the invention of the handle radically increased the energy efficiency of stone tools, particularly while chopping and smashing, and in the process dramatically increasing the “force and precision” that could be applied. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"94933","attributes":{"alt":"Every single Stone Age tool shown here has a handle, even if it’s only a strip of leather wrapped tightly around the top of a single stone piece. (SpicyTruffel
