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 ...

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

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.

Related: 7,000-year-old canoes from Italy are the oldest ever found in the Mediterranean The Stone Age began with the use of ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...

But how did the production of stone tools—called "knapping"—start? "I don't think it was a 'Eureka!' moment whereby hominins ...

but experts agree that the answers could someday crystallize from the ever-emerging technological evidence Stone Age humans left behind. In this interactive matching game, consider what roles ten ...

Here you will find videos and activities about the Stone Age. Try them out, and then test your knowledge with a short quiz before exploring the rest of the collection. Narrator: Excuse me.