Stone Age flint discovered in Dartmoor, UK. Emma Stockley "Perhaps small groups of men, women and children, dressed in furs and garments of leather and woven grasses sat in small groups around ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

A new study from SapienCE reveals that early modern humans at Blombos Cave in South Africa used ochre as a specialized tool ...

These scientists built their own Stone Age tools to figure out how they were used ... For instance, flakes and blades can break in half during flint knapping; transporting tools in, ...

Knapping is the practice of building tools from stone. The group created arrow head and knifes. The technology was used in the paleo era around the world, and today is being preserved as a hobby.

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.

COSHOCTON − The Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In is only in its second year locally, but has a history elsewhere dating back more than 40 years. Craftsmen will demonstrate how to create ...

The Coshocton Flint Festival and Knap-In goes back 40 years, but is in its second year in Coshocton. It features various vendors and artisans making arrowheads, spears, stone tools and more. Flint ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...

An archaeologist explores the importance of flint to Stone Age man. A modern day worker makes a replica of a Stone Age arrow, showing us how skilled Stone Age people were in their use of flint.

The Pitt Rivers Museum authorities at Oxford have recently issued their first Occasional Paper on Technology, and it is entitled "The Manufacture of a Flint Arrowhead by Quartzite Hammer-stone"*.

Stone age people in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint 9,000 years ago, according to researchers. Teeth from a Neolithic graveyard in Mehgarh in the country's Baluchistan province show ...