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 ...

The tools date back to around 2.9 million years ago ... explained anthropologist Kathy Schick of the Stone Age Institute in Indiana, who wasn't involved in the research. With the rocks and flakes, ...

The researchers created replica stone tools that resembled those used in the Early Upper Paleolithic age, about 38,000 to 30,000 years ago. They used these tools for different tasks, such as ...

Several big and small stone tools dating back to the Mesolithic period - also called the middle stone age - have been found. "The microliths, or the small stone tools, date back to around 10,000 ...

This is the first discovery of its kind in North China from the Paleolithic period. "Traditionally, we believed stone tool making was simply a matter of subtraction, changing the shape of the ...