These operate by applying physical compression to a surface.
Examples of force-concentrating tools include the hammer which moves a nail or the maul which moves a stake. Many are levers which give the user a mechanical advantage.
Moving tools move large and tiny items. Other examples of cutting tools include gouges and drill bits. But even resilient tools will require periodic sharpening, which is the process of removing deformation wear from the edge. Ideally, the edge of the tool needs to be harder than the material being cut or else the blade will become dulled with repeated use. 
Cutting and edge tools, such as the knife, sickle, scythe, hatchet, and axe are wedge-shaped implements that produce a shearing force along a narrow face. One can classify tools according to their basic functions: Advocates of nanotechnology expect a similar surge as tools become microscopic in size. Machine tools occasioned a surge in producing new tools in the industrial revolution. Their use expanded through the Dark Ages with the addition of windmills. Mechanical devices experienced a major expansion in their use in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome with the systematic employment of new energy sources, especially waterwheels. Based on marks on the bones at archaeological sites, it is now more evident that pre-humans were scavenging off of other predators' carcasses rather than killing their own food. “Man the hunter” as the catalyst for Hominin change has been questioned. Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain by inventing tools, they were able to accomplish tasks that human bodies could not, such as using a spear or bow and arrow to kill prey, since their teeth were not sharp enough to pierce many animals' skins. As well as hunting, other activities required tools such as preparing food, “.nutting, leatherworking, grain harvesting and woodworking.” Included in this group are “flake stone tools". Now, more tools are recognized as culturally and historically relevant. Up until recently, weapons found in digs were the only tools of “early man” that were studied and given importance. One of the earliest distinguishable stone tool forms is the hand axe. įinds of actual tools date back at least 2.6 million years in Ethiopia. This finding pushes back the earliest known use of stone tools among hominins to about 3.4 million years ago. However, a 2010 study suggests the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis ate meat by carving animal carcasses with stone implements. Stone artifacts date back to about 2.5 million years ago. These early tools, however, were likely made of perishable materials such as sticks, or consisted of unmodified stones that cannot be distinguished from other stones as tools. 
Because tools are used extensively by both humans and wild chimpanzees, it is widely assumed that the first routine use of tools took place prior to the divergence between the two species. Anthropologists believe that the use of tools was an important step in the evolution of mankind.
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