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How the tool helped
Chop animal meat
Cut the meat into pieces
Dig out tubers
Dig roots like yam out of the ground
Scrape animal skin
Clean the skin to use it
Cleave animal bones
Split the bone to extract the
protein-rich marrow
inside
Tubers are underground roots that can be eaten. Marrow is the soft, nourishing part inside a bone.
Cleavers and handaxes of this kind found in India date to about 1-5 million years .
