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 ...

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, ...

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

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.

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.

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.

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 humans flocked to latest models of flint tools – and worshipped where they came from. ... They are made of flint procured from the mountains of Samaria about 20km east of the cave, ...

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 ...