spicules

• Primates, Andonites developed

63:1.2The par­ents of this first hu­man cou­ple were ap­par­ently lit­tle dif­fer­ent from the av­er­age of their tribe, though they were among its more in­tel­li­gent mem­bers, that group which first learned to throw stones and to use clubs in fight­ing. They also made use of sharp spicules of stone, flint, and bone.

63:1.3While still liv­ing with his par­ents, An­don had fas­tened a sharp piece of flint on the end of a club, us­ing an­i­mal ten­dons for this pur­pose, and on no less than a dozen oc­ca­sions he made good use of such a weapon in sav­ing both his own life and that of his equally ad­ven­tur­ous and in­quis­i­tive sis­ter, who un­fail­ingly ac­com­pa­nied him on all of his tours of ex­plo­ration.

• Primates, Andonites developed

63:5.6The An­don­ites were fear­less and suc­cess­ful hunters and, with the ex­cep­tion of wild berries and cer­tain fruits of the trees, lived ex­clu­sively on flesh. As An­don had in­vented the stone ax, so his de­scen­dants early dis­cov­ered and made ef­fec­tive use of the throw­ing stick and the har­poon. At last a tool-cre­at­ing mind was func­tion­ing in con­junc­tion with an im­ple­ment-us­ing hand, and these early hu­mans be­came highly skill­ful in the fash­ion­ing of flint tools. They trav­eled far and wide in search of flint, much as pres­ent-day hu­mans jour­ney to the ends of the earth in quest of gold, plat­inum, and di­a­monds.