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 ...

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.

Recent research provides compelling evidence that Middle Paleolithic peoples created deliberate patterns on stone artifacts ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

The remains of five enormous woolly mammoths were unearthed in Austria, and they show signs of having been hunted and […] ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...

Archaeologists in Marbella, Spain have uncovered a rock which contains ancient prehistoric engravings, Ancient Origins ...

Archaeologists at Tel Aviv University have uncovered the answer to ancient humans’ regular presence at Paleolithic stone ...

New theory about the first humans to arrive in North America So in 1999, when archeologist Dennis Stanford and paleolithic tool expert Bruce Bradley were presenting their radical new hypothesis on ...

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 ...