Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...

The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick ...

Levallois tools result from a distinctive multistep sequence that efficiently produces lots of useful cutting tools, with minimal wasted stone. Taken together, these two finds make a strong case that ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...

Quina scrapers helped hunters process kills The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper.This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in Europe and the Middle East. Quina ...