During the Middle Paleolithic—a period spanning about 40,000 to 300,000 years ago, also called the Middle Stone Age—groups ...

For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

Roughly two million years old, this tool, known as the Kanjera stone, was part of a new Stone Age technology that helped ... serrated edges sharp enough for cutting. The handle side, meanwhile ...

Artefacts unearthed in Yunnan province display key features of toolmaking technology associated with Neanderthals much ...

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a ... what’s known about human origins during this period of the Stone Age, according to new research. Archaeologists excavating the Longtan ...

Just thick, dark forests with animals hiding in them, so Stone Age people needed sharp, strong tools to cut trees down and to hunt the animals for food. And this is where a stone called flint came in.

For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...