They are made of flint procured from the mountains of Samaria ... Archaeologists have known that early humans started using stone tools called scrapers to process hides and scrape the flesh ...

More than 100 distinctive flint artefacts from a Stone Age village in Jordan may be figurines ... each with the same distinctive shape and with two pairs of notches carved into it on either ...

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Eren himself is a master flint-knapper, deftly producing all manner of Stone Age blades from chert ... off what he needs so that the axe can take shape. The task becomes more challenging in ...

but in fact it's a very carefully-shaped tool called a hand axe, made out of flint. These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age.

An analysis of beveled sticks made from moose bone, discovered at what is believed to be Estonia's oldest known settlement site — Pulli — suggests they were likely used for stripping pine bark, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age ... of flint tools, not to mention ...

The Stone Age may have to be renamed following ... we used luminescence dating to do this. A piece of flint thought to have been used to shape the wooden structure Credit: Professor Larry Barham ...

Stone age people in Pakistan were using dental drills made of flint 9,000 years ago, according to researchers. Teeth from a Neolithic graveyard in Mehgarh in the country's Baluchistan province show ...

as archaeologists first started uncovering furnaces and flint before stumbling upon 139 cremation graves and stones that were once a part of ship-shaped graves. This wasn’t an average Stone Age ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a "unique" prehistoric ceremonial site in southern Sweden that dates back to the Neolithic period, or New Stone Age.