Your hammer really is an extension of your body!

Tools are 'temporary body parts'

Colleen

Thank you for sharing this post.

Eric Sloane said the same thing.

Is that research till in the hypothesis state? Interesting, never thought of it, but I do agree with the idea.

its the theory we use in the Martial Arts about weapons, so I agree completely.

It's a pretty common premise about any tools, heck artifacts of any kind and it's been around for a century or so. A basket or water jug is a bigger stomach that can hold more than one meal or drink. A basket is also bigger hands. Clothes are thick fur. A knife is sharp teeth and claws. And on it goes.

Heck, we built the Space shuttle because we can't flap our arms hard enough to achieve orbit.

Frosty