Shimelmitz, Ron Kuhn, Steven L. Ronen, Avraham Weinstein-Evron, Mina and Petraglia, Michael D. 2014. Predetermined Flake Production at the Lower/Middle Paleolithic ...

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.

Shea, John J. 2015. MAKING AND USING STONE TOOLS: ADVICE FOR LEARNERS AND TEACHERS AND INSIGHTS FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS. Lithic Technology, Vol. 40, Issue. 3, p. 231.

The oldest stone tools discovered were found in a 3.3-million-year-old archaeological site in West Turkana, Kenya, according to findings published in 2015 in the journal, "Nature." The authors ...

The excavation in Prakasam district's Retlapalle village has revealed Middle Paleolithic stone tools, suggesting that ancient human ancestors, now extinct, possessed sophisticated stone-making ...

They are most common in Africa but do occur in some Lower Paleolithic sites in Europe. Composite technology: Refers to tools and weapons that consist of several parts, such as stone points hafted ...

Area used by different civilizations for 250,000 years due to its fertile, easy-to-defend location, says Turkish archeologist ...

But an excavation near a village named Retlapalle in Prakasam district has thrown up so-called “middle-paleolithic” stone tools. Experts now believe that the art of tool-making was likely also ...

About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic ... their cultures with dozens of specialized tools, weaponry, and artifacts.

Paleolithic Humans May Have Understood the Properties of Rocks for Making Stone Tools Dec. 1, 2023 — Research suggests that Paleolithic humans in the Middle East selected flint for their cutting ...

where artifacts normally associated with Upper Paleolithic modern humans—bone tools, distinctive stone blades, and pierced and grooved animal teeth probably worn as pendants—were found along ...