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.

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 ...

The researchers created replica stone tools that resembled those used in the Early Upper Paleolithic age, about 38,000 to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A recent experimental study led by Kent State University and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History suggests that hunting ...

Jan Ritch-Frel: Alex Marshack was well-known for his idea that many of the social institutions we live by today are derived in large part from the “thought matrix of the Paleolithic”—the ideas and ...

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.