Why study Paleolithic technology ... Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example, are now recognized in many Middle Stone Age assemblages (e.g., McBrearty & Brooks 2000).
The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms ... For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood ...
Neanderthals, our closest extinct cousins who roamed Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before modern humans entered the picture, were more intelligent and resourceful than meets the eye.
An impressive 277 flint tools, metamorphic rocks ... the site appears to have been more intensely used during the Upper Palaeolithic age, but what that means remains to be seen.
An archeological discovery sheds new light on prehistoric cooking and raises questions as to the validity of the basis of ...