How to Use toolmaking in a Sentence

toolmaking

noun

• Until then, it was assumed that toolmaking was exclusive to man.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2017
• Kanzi’s toolmaking skills fell short of those of modern-day humans and our ancestors, however.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2025
• The discovery raises questions about the purpose of these artifacts, as ivory is less durable than stone for toolmaking.
  — Stories By Real-Time News Team, With Ai Summarization, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2025
• If toolmaking was more of an unstudied crapshoot, scientists would expect tools of all kinds to be made with all three of these families of stone.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2020
• Some scientists think these styles of toolmaking are passed down through each generation, which is a good definition of culture.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• That is now as pathetic to me as a fetid caveman’s toolmaking would be to a great thinker like da Vinci or even Edgar Allen Poe.
  — Graham Techler, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
• Blobs of pitch imprinted with human teeth marks have been found at ancient toolmaking sites, where archaeologists surmise the pitch was chewed to soften before use.
  — Kristin Romey, National Geographic, 17 Dec. 2019
• Somehow, African and Indian hominins were developing the same toolmaking skills at roughly the same time.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2018
• But big brains require a lot of cooling, and so developing a robust cooling system was important to advancing other skills, such as toolmaking.
  — Jeff Goodell, Time, 6 July 2023
• In prehistoric Europe, the Magdalenian culture was known for its toolmaking and artistry, left behind on cave walls and rocky outcrops.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
• These birds are renowned for their incredible problem-solving abilities and for their capacity to make and use complex tools, which rivals the big primate toolmaking skills.
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• Their visit to the site was evidently brief and purposeful, however; there are no traces of habitation, toolmaking or any other activities.
  — Jennifer Raff, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Potts stresses that Africa was dynamic place during the long era of human evolution, and adaptability—like that afforded by stone toolmaking—was key to survival.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2023
• Members learn from one another, pass down traditions — a navigation route, a toolmaking skill, even a parrot’s dialect — in a way that was once thought to be fundamentally human.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
• And so, too, are the tools from the cave, which were made using the Mousterian toolmaking techniques that the European Neanderthals shared amongst themselves.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The innovations included more complex stone toolmaking, communal care of children, control of fire, and the creation of meaning-laden materials.
  — Agustín Fuentes, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2018
• Such as toolmaking, said Parr, and having different personalities and emotions and being capable of affection.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2021
• On the mainland, archaeologists researching Paleoindians often search for cave shelters and debris from stone toolmaking.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021
• The archaeological record also includes cultural advancements and the evolution of toolmaking, Njau added.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
• There were only a few artifacts from the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic periods, including flint pieces and flakes leftover from toolmaking, archaeologists said.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2025
• Composite toolmaking is indicative of considerable technological know-how, and the bladelets at PP13B are among the oldest examples of it.
  — Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2012
• The insatiable demand for bicycles spawned other industries—ball bearings, wire for spokes, steel tubing, precision toolmaking—that would shape the manufacturing world long after the bicycle was relegated to the toy department.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2020
• According to the archaeologists, the transition from stone to bone was a feat of abstract thinking, requiring an aptitude in toolmaking and an appreciation that the knapping techniques that worked on one material would also work on another.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2025
• An advanced comprehension of toolmaking and the ability to apply it to different materials suggests that ancient human ancestors had greater cognitive abilities than previously believed, the researchers said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
• Many mental abilities once regarded as uniquely human — toolmaking, problem-solving, sophisticated communication, self-awareness — turn out to be far more widespread among animals than previously thought.
  — Ferris Jabr, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
• Additional evidence in the caves also points to the site serving as a semi-permanent Neanderthal encampment likely used for toolmaking, hunting, or perhaps even ritualistic activities.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
• Because this region is critical to complex speech, long thought necessary for advanced toolmaking, the findings suggest these early members of our genus didn’t possess particularly modern humanlike brains, the researchers report today in Science.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
• Now that their advanced toolmaking abilities are so well-documented, the traditional theory that the Neanderthals disappeared due to our own species’ technological superiority doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
• The findings also reinforce that ancient Egyptian innovation extended beyond monumental architecture to practical craftsmanship and toolmaking.
  — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
• The tool shows evidence of early engineering skill and material science, reinforcing that ancient Egyptian innovation extended beyond monumental architecture to practical craftsmanship and toolmaking.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026