The Palaeolithic archaeological record in Britain captures a rather sudden increase in stone knapping skills around half a million years ago, indicating that a major milestone in human evolution may ...

A long-time arrowhead collector, Kila's Tom Blais has been learning how to make the stone tools himself for nearly 30 years. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) Kila's Tom Blais uses traditional stone and ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, which in turn played a large role in increasing human brain size and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stone tools are deliberately made by the hands of hominins, like these worked on by the author. John K. Murray Have you ever found ...

John C. Whittaker, an archaeologist, has long crafted such tools for experimental purposes, to see how they were used, how much effort it took to make them, and what the waste products of manufacture ...