Oral — Non-Transport Machines
InventTable — ORAL ERA — Machines non-transport
| Invention | Description | Year | Inventor | Country |
| Stone tipped spears | flint | 250,000 BCE | Africa | |
| Obsidian flake tools | glasslike stone sharpened | 250,000 BCE | Africa | |
| Axe/hammer | wedge of stone with lever handle, hafted | 200,000 BCE | Africa | |
| Harpoon | carved bone | 90,000 BCE | Congo, Africa | |
| Bow and arrow | flint arrow heads | 70,000 BCE | South Africa (83) | |
| Boomerang | carved and bent wood | 50,000 BCE | Australia | |
| Fish hook | carved bone | 40,000 BCE | Russia | |
| Atlatl | flexible throwing dart | 35,000 BCE | Africa | |
| Bull roarer | sound generator | 18,000, BCE | Ukraine | |
| Sickle | harvesting tool | 15,000 BCE | Israel |