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.

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than ...

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 ...