Rock,
Hammer,
Mace.

Let’s make another break. And clear up some some terms before waddling further.

A man and a chimp see a nut. A hard shelled nut. Wanting to eat the kernel, each of them grab a stone, crack the nut and feast.

The chimp throws his the moment it no longer needs it.
The man attaches his, after chipping it, to a handle. And builds a hammer. Or an axe…

Using tools, people build communities. Thriving communities. Wealthy communities…
So wealthy that they need to be defended. Or wealthy enough to enable their rulers to attempt to conquer more.
Any-ways, both situations demand weapons. Hence the stone attached to a handle becomes a mace…

Remember ‘coordination, conversation, cooperation’?
People coordinated around a real thing. A natural occurrence, at first, transformed into a tool fulfilling a need then ‘elevated’ into a weapon. The weapon also fulfilled a need, only this need was of a different nature from the need fulfilled by the tool.

In each of the latter situations, the 3C’s played a role.
People talked about tools. Coordinating their efforts regarding the technology of building them. Their efforts to use them. To hunt, for example.
Then they talked about the hunt itself. And about other exploits. Conversating about their experiences, people build trust. Build communities.
Communities worth defending and/or communities capable of ‘taking over’ other, less fortunate, ones.
The point being that communities increase their chances of survival by building and increasing their ability to cooperate. By building mutual trust and respect. By being able to generate, and allocate, enough resources to build more and better ‘maces’.