Similarities in fabrication techniques suggest that Paleolithic people passed on their methods — and may have shared them with other groups. Looking closely at the tools’ chipped blades as well as the ...

"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

Paleolithic Technology is a Window to the Deep Past The Paleolithic (the ‘Old Stone Age') begins ~2.6 million years ago with the emergence of the archaeological record and the first material evidence ...

The Stone Age was a prehistoric period that lasted more than 3 million years, from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often ...

Research suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting tools based on differences in the mechanical properties of the rock. They seem to have purposefully ...

Researchers 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 ...

A research group led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan has clarified differences in the physical characteristics of rocks used by early humans ...