The resulting fractures and wear enabled them to develop new criteria for identifying ... If these kinds of traces were indeed found on genuine Stone Age tools, it would be evidence that humans ...

The genus Homo is no longer the sole primate lineage known to have used stone tools to consume the meat of large mammals. New research pushes ... Semaw of the Stone Age Institute, who discovered ...

The human Stone Age was ... so right? A new study has the answer – or, at least, the initial stages of one. By directly ...

This means the archaeological record of human tool use is deeply skewed towards the much hardier stone ... lost age. New techniques are making it possible to find traces of plant-based tools ...

to our surprise, we noticed two neolithic stone tools which are known as new stone age tools. One is 12 cm ... These stones are well polished at the bottom and each one has a butt end to hold ...

Neanderthals were even better craftsmen than thought, a new analysis of 300,000 ... reflected in the production of tools. The basic chronology — Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age — now ...

or “New Stone Age,” artifacts. “Indeed, in view of the large number and quality of the finds, the Neolithic Age might equally well be termed the Wood Age.” Alongside their tools and weapons, ancient ...

Stone “Clovis points” used by prehistoric hunters to kill animals are also remarkably efficient at cutting meat off a large animal carcass – at least according to a modern bison butchering ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found ... only tech-savvy creatures during the Stone Age, said study author Rick Potts, director of ...

also called the Middle Stone Age—groups such as modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans emerged and began developing new stone tools. Archaeologists have found evidence of these dynamic ...