With this data in hand, and with numerous populations sampled ... Acheulean: An Earlier Stone Age/Lower Paleolithic tool industry dating from ~1.7 million years ago to ~120,000 years ago ...
The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the ... Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to ...
It was made sometime between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago (during the Middle Palaeolithic) and was part of the tool kit used by Neanderthals. Handaxes are thought to have been used primarily for ...
This is the first discovery of its kind in North China from the Paleolithic period. "Traditionally, we believed stone tool making was simply a matter of subtraction, changing the shape of the ...
The ax that Witten found likely dates to the late Middle Paleolithic era. The pointed tool is “so rare that ... It’s small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, but it stood out to Witten ...
It was made sometime between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago (during the Middle Palaeolithic) and was part of the tool kit used by Neanderthals. Handaxes are thought to have been used primarily for ...