AUGUSTO GÓMEZ SERRANO - SANTAFÉ DE BOGOTÁ (Colombia)
He makes more than a room of million of years, the Homo erectus manufactured sílex axes in África, Asia and Europe.
It was still a tool without mango, carved carefully until forming a rough triangle that could take hold with easiness. He had sharp edges and sharp tip.
The same as the roughly figured songs to those that substituted, were a tool of multiple uses that was good to skin animals, to cut meat, I will rasp skins, to cut wood and to dig. It doesn't fit doubt that it was also used like weapon.
35.000 years ago the heads of axes adapted to a mango, thanks to which the man could deliver much more potent blows. When the man became farming, about 9.000 years ago, the axe found its more important use in the pruning of forests to open lands to the agriculture.
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