Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

The team examined 27 bone fragments that had been transformed into tools through a process known as knapping, used in stool manufacturing. This method involves using a larger stone to break pieces ...

In this video, Dug makes his own knapping tools from common Home Depot materials. Cool Tools’ Kevin Kelly has pointed out ...

The piece was created using a process called knapping in which a tool like an antler tine would be used to gradually remove small flakes from the larger flint piece until it was shaped ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

But how did the production of stone tools – called ‘knapping’ – start? Three Cleveland Museum of Natural History researchers have proposed a new hypothesis for the origin of stone technology in human ...