They’re much less complex and precise than the tools made by later hominins, like Neanderthals, who chipped small flakes off carefully prepared stone cores. Geochemical analysis of the tools at ...

This artifact was used to provide stone blades. Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core.

in which a flint stone core is essentially flaked away to make a point that can cut and hack. One tool dates to the Middle Paleolithic, while the other dates to 100,000 years ago. Like ornamental ...

Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University and part of the Paisley Caves team, says that Clovis points were made from large stone cores, while the Western Stemmed tools were ...

Another groundbreaking discovery that Wei doesn't want visitors to miss is the evidence of a culture that processed ochre, ...

Cobble tool: A type of large core, with a spall removed, that is used as a chopping/cutting tool. Cores: A stone that functions as the primary source for flaked pieces. Cortex: Weathered surface on ...

Three stone spheroids (left) and two stone cores discovered at Nihewan also on show.[Photo provided to China Daily] It has not only the earliest Majuangou site in northern China dating to 2 ...