Cenotes in the Yucatán Peninsula are time capsules preserving remnants of Maya culture and fossils of extinct megafauna ...

The origins of cultural innovations in early Homo sapiens have sparked much debate. However, a significant discovery in Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy, may resolve one such long-standing ...

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

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

2019. The impact of flake tool attributes and butcher experience on carcass processing time and efficiency during experimental butchery trials. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Vol. 29, ...

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 ...

Can you think why the people would adopt the new technology? 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 ...

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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A team of Chinese and Kenyan archaeologists have uncovered a Stone Age “production line” that used sophisticated techniques to produce “standardised” tools. The findings could fill in the ...

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.

The excavation site in Nyayanga where hundreds of stone tools dating to roughly 2.9 million years ago were found Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever used by ...