This piece reminds me of how advanced we have become since the early days of mankind when flint provided a means to survive. I have often found flint tools/scrapers in the fields surrounding my ...

Egberts collected over 850 artifacts, ranging from very old hand axes from the Early or Old ... to teach local elementary school children about prehistoric flint discoveries." ...

"The results from Iraq will significantly contribute to the broader knowledge of humans' prehistoric life on the Arabian Peninsula," she stated. The collected artifacts range from hand axes from ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the ... the emergence of systemically produced lithic hand axes. “This discovery leads us to assume that early ...

And more than two million years ago, hominins were using crude stone tools in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, one of the world's most important prehistoric ... cut stones into hand axes, also called ...

This Neolithic stone axe was found within a prehistoric pit at Clifton (Worcestershire) during an archaeological project in 2006. The axe itself is beautifully made of polished stone and is very ...