A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

R esearchers 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

This supports the idea that demographic changes played a role in the transition from the Middle to the Later Stone Age, a time when new types of tools emerged and information was exchanged over long ...

This cluster of settlements, sometimes called the "Stone Age Pompeii," has yielded tens of thousands of ceramics, stone tools and bone objects over the past century of excavations, along with ...