Tools
a) Axes (hand)
b) Borers
c) Choppers
d) Cleaves
e) Pebbles
f) Flakes

• Earliest human fossils found in Africa dates back to about 4.2 million years.
• The fossils of various periods and stages of human development have been found from many parts of the world like Africa, China, Java, Sumatra and southern Europe.
• The humans evolved over a period of these 42lakhs years and the present form reached about 50,000 years ago.
• Unfortunately, due to the climatic conditions, except the solitary find of a hominid fossil from Hathnaura in the Narmada Valley, no early human fossils have been found in India belonging to stone age.
• The regular use of tools, beginning 2.6 m.y. ago in east Africa is well attested and accompanies many earlier and later hominid fossils. In case of Indonesia several hominid remains have recently been dated between 1.8 and 1.6 m.y. In China the early stone tools are associated with human fossils dated between 1.7 and 1.9 m.y.
• The various strata of the Sivalik hills containing stone tools have been dated between 2 m.y. and 1.2 m.y.
• Early stone tools came from the archaeological site of Bori in Pune district of Maharashtra which is 1.38 m.y old. When we assess the evidence for early human settlement in India we find that it is later than that in the African region, but contemporary to the rest of the Asian countries.