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.

People of the past used stone, wood, and bone to create a variety of tools. Although stone tools are more commonly found in archaeological settings, it is likely that bone and wood tools had an ...

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.