No one knows what this crescent-shaped tool was used for ... In either case, the stone in the Fenn and other caches was hand-carried great distances. This Clovis biface—or two-faced point ...

Malaysia's government-owned Bernama news agency reported that the archaeological work at the Nenggiri Valley sites began in ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

Axe: A chopping or cutting tool where a stone blade is attached to a (typically wooden/bone) handle with edge parallel to the handle. Bevelled edge: An edge that is slanted. Biface: A flaked stone ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

Normally, cooks use a pizza peel — a tool that looks like a giant spatula — to slide the pizza onto the stone. But that won't ...

Consider tools with 4 or more amps when sawing dense hardwood or grinding stone or tile. However, light-duty projects, such as sanding, don’t require as much power, so a 3-amp motor will usually ...

With a well-made weeding tool and some vigilance, banishing these pesky plants can be fairly simple. Weeds proliferate seemingly overnight, and it’s easiest to remove them when they’re young.

Lithic Technology, Vol. 48, Issue. 3, p. 253. The stone tools and fossil bones from the earliest archaeological sites in Africa have been used over the past fifty years to create models that interpret ...

R esearchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

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