
These ancient tools were on display at the Meiser Homestead museum in Wappingers Falls, Duchess County. Tools like these were used by early hominids to do thing like hunt and prepare food, as well as used to survive and fight if need be. These tools are usually sharpened to a point in order to be able to cut things easily. Tools like these would be equivalent to knifes in todays day and age. This source connects to the early human origins section of our class. These tools show that people living in these pre-colonial time periods were making tools that would evolve in modern times.