A fun series on Nat Geo that just aired is The Great Human Race. It had two survivalist actors who assumed the technology of the era and lived off it for five days.
First: use rocks to crack open bones as a scavenger. Then cutting tools. Then spears, then control fire, then domesticating animals, then bronze etc. until arrival in North America where they made cordage and nets and had all the salmon they could ever eat.
Using a rock to smash bones at a kill site was the God moment, around 3 million years ago. We could do something no animal could and became the apex predator and own the planet.
The birth of rock!