What does it take for the primitive wondering man to settle down?
Imagine if you will the ancient man living within the small clan of his relatives, always fearful, always hungry, very indistinguishable from the animals around him. Regardless of the geographic area, his relatives would gather to hunt driven by the animal instinct of necessity rather than any kind of a plan. The rest of the time he would spent while hiding often unsuccessfully from predators on top of the trees and small caves. Their only tools stones and sticks were gifts from the nature. Their total similarity with primates at this age is why we can't even call them humans yet.
Somewhere along the years strange thing happened. They learned to observe, and think (i.e. summarize their observance in more abstract way) and communicate these rather abstract ideas to each other. All animals observe their surroundings for signs of food, danger, basic comfort or playtime. Yet any ideas beyond their immediate needs does not enter their consciousness. Yet at one point primitive Adam or Eve realized that one edge of the stone can be sharpened to allow cutting with or that one can attach the stone to the stick tying it with the nature's rope - lian plant to make hitting with the harder impact. This took imagination which is a true sign of intelligence. From there the process of making new tools either by modifying or combining nature's gifts only advanced perhaps with the rapid speed. We still use the knife and axes today though they hardly resemble their prototypes.
Since the ancient men were carnivorous, it is not surprising the most of the earliest tools were perhaps created for the purpose of hunting or defense. Further observance and imagination allow hunters to setup the various traps on the path of the animals. Thus strategy and tactic were born. However while meet was important part of the diet, hunting was not always successful. In this case they could fall back to gathering fruits and vegetables and digging for the roots of some plants. Not everything was edible and humanity only learned the by trial and error.
Another interesting aspect was migrations. Animals always moved around either looking for better pastures or to avoid predators. Primitive humans had to follow. Thus many did not stay in one place for long time.
Fast forward million years later.
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