Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

The Clovis culture was a prehistoric Native American people that lived roughly 13,000 years ago in North America near the end ...

However, a significant discovery in Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy, may resolve one such long-standing question after discovering Homo sapiens' stone tools. A multinational research team has ...

What do you know about different types of stone? Why do you think sandstone is used for grinding (see Figure 9)? Is this the type of tool that would be carried from place to place? How heavy do you ...

Some scholars suggest this was a branch of the hunter-gatherer Hoabinhian culture, who made distinctive stone tools found in other parts of Southeast Asia, from southwest China to Indonesia.

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

Lithic Technology, Vol. 48, Issue. 3, p. 253. The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret ...

Archeologists have unearthed the world's oldest known eyeliner from a prehistoric city in Turkey, proving that humans used makeup over 8,000 years ago. The artifact, a kohl stick still popular today, ...

FOX 26 Senior Legal Analyst Chris Tritico offers his expert advice on legal questions from viewers. Lawmakers propose ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

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