But more recent findings show that stone age technology developed and spread more slowly. The stone scraper — thick, asymmetrical, and with a sharp edge — represents the hallmark of the Quina system.

The tool set unearthed at Longtan in 2019 and 2020 include scrapers, used to work hides or wood with one sharp side, stone points that might have been attached to wooden spears, and tools that had ...

Quina system of making tools was previously found in Europe but never in East Asia (Ben Marwick et al, PNAS) Researchers discovered a Quina stone scraper, thick and asymmetrical with a broad and ...

We know this from tiny scratches and chips on the scrapers that match traces caused by working these materials in experiments using contemporary stone tools. European archaeologists believe that ...

We know this from tiny scratches and chips on the scrapers that match traces caused by working these materials in experiments using contemporary stone tools. European archaeologists believe that ...

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone previously believed.

A hand ax dating back at least 45,000 years was recently discovered in Switzerland, officials said. Photo from Kanton Basel-Landschaft A rare Neanderthal hand ax was recently discovered in ...

The stone scraper - thick, asymmetrical, and with a sharp edge - represents the hallmark of the Quina system. The tool was typically used to shape bones, antlers, and wood. The archeologists found ...

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our understanding of human evolution in East Asia. The Quina method ...