Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

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 ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

This web page will go over several types of wood, bone, and stone tools to highlight the numerous types of tools used by people of the past, and how the shape and size of the tool affects it's ...

These tools were made by pecking and grinding until the desired shape was achieved. Like a hafted maul, the hand maul had to be made from a type of stone that could be used as a hammer without ...

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 ...