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What are some of the ways early hunters and gathers used technology in their lives?
• Early people used animal bones for fishing and needles for sewing and needles for sewing animal skins together
• They sharpened animal bones and stones into spear points and tied them to wooden poles for hunting
• They worked plant fibers into rope and nets
• They invented the atlatl or spear thrower
o The atlatl allowed early people to launch their spears at greater distances and speeds