The video shows the construction and use of a stone adze.To put this video in context, the dome hut you see in the video is in the same spot as the wattle and Daub hut is today- only 2 years ...

However, if you discover a tool that was made from a type of stone that can only be found hundreds of miles away, maybe someone traded for this material or carried it with them. Try it for yourself ...

When Japanese scientists wanted to learn more about how ground stone tools dating back to the Early Upper Paleolithic might have been used, they decided to build their own replicas of adzes, axes ...

Chimpanzee stone tool diversity New analysis of chimpanzee stone tools show diverse material culture Date: September 20, 2022 Source: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...

During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use of a group of wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest in Cote d'Ivoire in early 2022 the researchers identified and 3D scanned a variety of stone ...

A group of European archaeologists recently published a paper on their discovery of a “stone tool workshop” with 575 obsidian ax heads at a single site in the Awash valley of Ethiopia, dated ...

Luncz and Proffitt have found similar results with stone flakes produced by capuchin monkeys in Brazil’s Serra da Capivara National Park. “What is super exciting is that we find another ...

Archaeologists have found a 6-inch stone penis that may have been used to sharpen swords in Spain during the tumultuous 15th century. Archaeologists said the object's purpose was easy to identify ...

Mysterious Stone in 15th-Century Painting Could Be a Prehistoric Tool Jean Fouquet’s “Melun Diptych” is likely the earliest artistic representation of an Acheulean hand ax ...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did – and learn to recognize the signs of a deliberately made tool.

However, if you discover a tool that was made from a type of stone that can only be found hundreds of miles away, maybe someone traded for this material or carried it with them. Try it for yourself ...