One such clue is the presence of flake scars, or what we call negative removals, which can be found on both cores and flakes. These have characteristic ridges on one or more sides of the rock that ...

Cleavers: Large, bifacially flaked core-tools, one end of which is formed by the intersection of a large flake scar on each face ... Current Anthropology 33, 463-471 (1992).

The talk was delivered by Montgomery Fellow Charles Musiba, a professor of anthropology at the University ... The researchers counted the flake scars on the surface of the painted stone object.

Clovis points are distinguishable due to their flute or channel flake scar near the base ... a Berkeley associate professor of anthropology. Clovis points are often the only recovered part of a spear.

Caption Clovis points are distinguishable, in part, due to their distinctive flute or channel flake scar near the base, as shown in these replicas. UC Berkeley researchers studied how the points ...

says Lydia Luncz at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. In 2016, Luncz and her colleagues realised that Brazilian capuchins produce stone flakes from the ...

On average, they carry 12.9 flake scars, placed consistently along their lateral edges and apparently made using handheld hammerstones. The bones are mixed with stone tools associated with the ...