University of Wollongong researchers have experimentally confirmed that changes in hammer strike angle significantly affect the fracture path and form of stone flakes produced by Neanderthals ...

In this note I dealt solely with one form of flint fracture, viz., the large, flat, non-conchoidal fractures, surfaces which are produced by a certain type of “cleaving” blow, and pointed out ...

Archaeologists can determine whether a chunk of rock is a stone tool based on clues left behind from the process of conchoidal fracture during flintknapping.

Around half of the fractured flakes exhibited conchoidal fracture, which is typically associated with the hominin production of flakes.