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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.

Queens of the Stone Age: Alive in the Catacombs was recorded in July 2024 and marks the first time that an artist has been given permission to perform within the famed tombs.

To reach Malta, these hunter-gatherers seemingly crossed at least 100 kilometers of open ocean, the team says. The findings add to an emerging picture of systematic seafaring in the Stone Age.

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.

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.

Knapping is what archaeologists call the process of removing flakes from the original pieces of stone (or cores) and then shaping the chosen pieces to make tools like scrapers and arrowheads.

Using special dredges, scientists have just brought to the surface 100 flint artefacts made by Stone Age humans between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago.

JAIPUR: Historians have discovered Stone Age rock paintings, cup marks on stones and sharp-edged artifacts in a village in Chittorgarh district. The discovery adds valuable insights into early ...