A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

Among these tools are the iconic Clovis spearpoints with their distinctive flutes — concave areas left behind by removed ...

While the stone used in many points can be traced to ... This specimen shows worn ridges on its flake scars, which may suggest that it rubbed repeatedly against other artifacts it was packed ...

Interestingly, all the artifacts were found on the surface of the ground, not buried deep in the soil. These artifacts ...

said the simple stone flake was probably used either for cutting plant fibres or for scraping animal skins. While birch tar may have been used by Neanderthals to attach stone tools to wooden ...

The technique provides much greater control over the size and shape of the final stone flake, which can then be employed as a ...

The world’s oldest known drawing has been identified on a small stone flake recovered in South Africa’s Blombos Cave. The tiny fragment measures less than two inches long and barely half an ...

Bevelled edge: An edge that is slanted. Biface: A flaked stone tool that has been modified or retouched on both sides. Blade: A cutting tool made from a flake that’s length is at least twice its width ...

and perimortem injury relating to stone flake, which remains embedded in right wall of nasal pyriform aperture; c) healed linear penetrating fracture and cut marks in left zygomatic bone relating ...