TIME ABOUT A million and a half years ago, some fotten genius of the hominidworld did an ued thing. He (or very possibly she) took oone and carefully used itto shape ahe result was a simple teardrop-shaped hand axe, but it was the world’sfirst piece of advaeology.
It was so superior to existing tools that soon others were following the ior’s lead andmaking hand axes of their owually whole societies existed that seemed to do littleelse. “They made them ihousands,” says Ian Tattersall. “There are some places inAfrica where you literally ’t move without stepping on them. It’s strange because they arequite intensive objects to make. It was as if they made them for the sheer pleasure of it.”
From a shelf in his sunny workroom Tattersall took down an enormous cast, perhaps a footand a half long a inches wide at its widest point, and ha to me. It was shapedlike a spearhead, but ohe size of a stepping-stone. As a fiberglass cast it weighed only afew oun……（内容加载失败！）
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