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

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 ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned ... For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Belgian scientists from the Free University of Brussels (VUB) have announced the results of an expedition in the Iraqi ...