Fish hook,, 300,000BC

I isn't a complicated device, the fish hook just a bit of bent wire with a sharpened end but throughout most of human history it has allowed man to nab a meal without risking life and limb hunting wild animals, or busting a gut in the fields. the earliest hooks, which probably date to around 300,000BC, were in facet carved in wood. Others have been fashioned from horns, shells thorns or even, in the case of the Easter Island, the thigh bones of deceased fishermen.