Stone arrowheads, produced through a process known as knapping, are a major focus of events like the Bald Eagle Knap-In Primitive Arts Festival held annually by the Susquehanna Valley Flint Knappers ...
On the morning of July 9, 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. Since then, conventional wisdom in human evolutionary studies has supposed that ...
Scientists found the oldest known elephant bone tool in Europe at a site in the United Kingdom where elephant remains are scarce. The 500,000-year-old tool was used for knapping, or breaking flint and ...
Excavating stone artifacts that date from 3.3 million years ago in Kenya. MPK-WTAP, CC BY-NC-ND On the morning of July 9 2011, we were climbing a remote hill near the western shore of Lake Turkana in ...