While searching a construction area in Altenberge, Germany, amateur archaeologists just happened upon a rare blade from the ...

They are extremely small and closely resemble stone artefacts,” he adds. Lasting from about 2.6 million to 200,000 years ago, the Lower Palaeolithic – or Early Stone Age – saw the emergence ...

Two of the stone tools analyzed were made using the Levallois knapping technique of the Levant Stone Age, in which a flint stone core is essentially flaked away to make a point that can cut and hack.

Patten. Flint-knapping is equal parts art and science, which I learned firsthand as Eren guided me while making a Stone Age hand axe out of the random chunks of chert Eren keeps in buckets in his lab.

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface 100 flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago. The artefacts – a number of small flint ...

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk of human prehistory—and life wasn’t only about hunting and gathering. Because of just how long ago it was, we tend to think there wasn’t a ...

Stone Age people were by no means dull cave dwellers. Breathtaking finds in the caves of the Danube Valley in southern Germany show what they were capable of. Does the cradle of modern European ...

The Coshocton Flint Festival ... spears, stone tools, bows, cordage and other items from hide and bone. There are jewelry makers and other artisans as well, and people attending will have ...

The Coshocton Flint Festival ... spears, stone tools, bows, cordage and other items from hide and bone. There will be jewelry makers and other artisans as well, and people attending will have ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to ... flakes and blades can break in half during flint knapping; transporting tools in, say, small leather ...

Nearby, someone is knapping flint tools ... majority of artworks – which far outnumber any other surviving Stone Age depictions of our species – depict women. "It's quite striking ...