Discoveries in a Moroccan cave have provided a rare look at how Stone Age people may have turned animal skins into clothing. Bone tools, including hide scrapers and stone-tool sharpeners, were ...

The unique stone tools were made of flint from the Mountains of Samaria, which were probably also the fallow deers' calving areas, located east of the prehistoric sites of Jaljulia and Qesem Cave.

For thousands of years before European contact, Native Americans used stone to create many of the tools that were used in their everyday lives. Not all types of stone are suitable for making tools, ...

A close look at a Quina-like scraper from Jaljulia. Credit: Tel Aviv University A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 ...

Humans living about 400,000 years ago produced an unprecedented diversity of elephant bone tools, including pointed tools for carving meat and wedge-shaped tools for cracking open large femurs and ...