The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

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This is volume one, The Prehistoric World.

Episode 5 Lower Paleolithic Stone Tools. And the Previously on the history of the world podcast we told the story of how our ancestors

the Australopithecines evolved into the first proto-humans, Homo havelis and into the first proto-humans, Homo havelis, and into the first fully upright humans, Homo erectus.

We discovered that human species had left their heartland of Africa on foot and had begun to colonize the Eurasian land

mess.

We also learnt that our evolution is not a simple linear evolution, but that many different species of hominin had indeed previously

co-existed and that many species have previously died out in failed natural evolutionary experiments.

We learned that humans were making technological advances in stonntal creation and fire manipulation,

which enabled them to further enhance their intelligence

and expand into less favourable climates and less familiar landscapes.

So this week's podcast will explore those technological advances in more detail

so that we can better understand our prehistoric development.

The lower Paleolithic period marks the beginning of the Stone Age.

Palio or Paleo depending on your preference means old and Lithicithic means stone. The lower Paleolithic period differs from the middle Paleolithic and the upper Paleolithic which in turn are more modern.

It was always widely assumed that humans were the first to use stone tools in prehistory

certainly finds from various locations supported this.

However, to start to learn how we perceive the lower Paleolithic in modern years,

we should join our old friend, Louisakey in that very familiar location of Olduvai Gorge, which should be called Olde Pie Gorge.

It is the 1930s and the gorge is in the British administered territory of Tanganyika, which is modern Tanzania.

Louis was a young man back then.

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