For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...

Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example, are now recognized in many Middle Stone Age assemblages (e.g., McBrearty & Brooks 2000). Thus, Periods are not strict aggregates of discrete ...

R esearchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance ...

The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age ... stone core carried as source material, blades were fashioned into knives, scrapers, and other tools.

These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age. And to show how long ago that is, I'm going to walk back in time. This is today.

These tools were made by pecking and grinding until the desired shape was achieved. Like a hafted maul, the hand maul had to be made from a type of stone that could be used as a hammer without ...

The sound of Stone Age hunter-gatherer toolmakers at work on ... of hornfels rock was shaped and prepared for use in making tools that might have ranged from scrapers to arrowheads.

Studies of the Oldowan stone tools – the oldest known stone tool ... were also included when they made selections, such as their age and sex, as well as contextual factors.