What types of tools did early man use??
I am assuming by “early man” you mean the earliest known humans, and their immediate predecessors. Going by that: The earliest stone tools date to approximately 2.5 million years ago and are from Gona, Ethiopia. A hammerstone is used to hit another stone called the core to break off flakes of stone, creating sharp cutting edges on the flakes as well sometimes the core. The earliest tools are referred to as the “Oldowan” industry. Out of the Oldowan developed the Acheulean, which is characterized by the use of giant hand-axes that are bifacially flaked (that is, flakes are knocked off both sides). Though referred to as hand-axes, it is now debated whether these were actually used themselves as tools, or were carried around to use as cores (that is, to knock off flakes to use as tools). Some are extremely large in size, well over a foot. These are associated with early Homo. A method called “Levallois” began being used almost 300,000 years ago, though not widespread till 200,000, around
