Examples of hand axes found in Kenya, which indicate that early humans were using stone hand axes as far back as 1.8 million years ago. [CREDIT: Pierre-Jean Texier, National Center of Scientific Research, France]
They did have branch banks, though.
Under shade trees.
Im Thinking Rachuel Welch at a footpath intersection,with various axes knives etc.With a sign saying +Got meat?+
Now they use machetes.
Hand axes, small handheld stone tools used by ancient humans, could have served as the first commodity in the human world thanks to their durability and utility.
Then Democrats were the first Tool Thieves.
Got change of a hammer?
You can usually pick one up at the pawn shop real cheap near the end of the month.
Now, tools of an entirely different variety are ruining our money.
You get it.
Come on now, there were lots of cultures up to the twentieth century which did not use money. They bartered for what they need, had gift exchanges, raided and traded between villages. To say that tools were money is silly, for so were furs, skins, meat, shells, pretty stones, cool feathers, animals, women, children, baskets and just about everything people had could be wealth. So a stone tool is wealth but so was everything else, don’t these guys read historical accounts?
Large stone donuts were used as the first credit cards.
Looks like I'm back in business, anybody want to trade?There might be much more recent and closer to home examples of tools to strengthen the point.
I had the opportunity to visit Cahokia and the fabulous museum there. Of much interest were products available there from distant locations. Copper from Minnesota/Michigan, mica from North Carolina and shells from the Gulf and perhaps the Gulf of California. Also present were exhibits on two locations for the manufacture and repair of celts, stone axes used with a wood haft. There were a hundred or so in both of the shops
This was of interest to me because as a young man my uncle plowing on a Clinch River bottom in East Tennessee turned one up in excellent condition. I did some research for him and discovered one virtually identical for sale found a hundred miles or so north on the Clinch in South west Virginia. They seem identical to those being manufactured in the Cahokia shop.