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 ...

In a nutshell Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of systematic bone tool production by over a million years.

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

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.

Researchers have discovered that humans lived in tropical rainforests 150,000 years ago, around 100,000 years earlier than previous evidence suggested.