This artifact was used to provide stone blades. Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core.

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

The researchers wrote that techniques used on stone tools from the Oldowan age carried over into a time the human ancestors were entering the Acheulean age. Bones shaped into tools had only ever ...

Around 900,000 years ago, the hominins (bipedal and upright-walking primates) inhabiting that region began to develop Europe's first advanced stone ... carving techniques and were used for various ...