The emergence of stone tool technology represents — in hindsight — a momentous step in human evolution (Figure 2). With sharp flakes and simple core tools, early hominins could easily slice ...

Archaeologists have found stone tools including projectile points, blades, and flake tools at the Gault site, the oldest of which date to between 20,000 and 16,000 years ago, thousands of years ...

Do you think it takes a long time? Look at the other stone tools in this case. Which ones might have been made in this fashion? Flake tools (as pictured in Figure 15) could easily cut animal hide and ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be ... sliced animal hides to make clothing using awls. These tools could be made from stone or bone and were highly sharpened for maximum efficiency.

The timeline of stone tool development by humans has been rearranged ... with a hammer-like tool to extract a prepared ‘core' ...

It would have enabled the user to apply more pressure to the stone flake without cutting their hands - turning the edge into a precision cutting tool. Sea gives up Neanderthal fossil The tool was ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be ... sliced animal hides to make clothing using awls. These tools could be made from stone or bone and were highly sharpened for maximum efficiency.

Bevelled edge: An edge that is slanted. Biface: A flaked stone tool that has been modified or retouched on both sides. Blade: A cutting tool made from a flake that’s length is at least twice its width ...