Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...

The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has been ...

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It’s much easier to come up with a world-changing invention if there are examples of it lying around without you having to ...

The Quina technology discovered in East Asia was a set of stone tools for making other tools. Prehistoric sites in Europe that host similar tools are associated with Neanderthals. Ben Marwick ...

People used Quina scrapers to scrape and cut soft materials ... If older layers hold what look like the remnants of experiments in stone toolmaking that would eventually result in Quina tools, it ...

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to 50,000 years ago.But whose hands shaped them? The answer could shake ...

Levallois tools result from a distinctive multistep sequence that efficiently produces lots of useful cutting tools, with minimal wasted stone. Taken together, these two finds make a strong case that ...

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with ...

In a paper published in Science Robotics, we demonstrated these tools could grip, pull and cut tissue. Their extremely small size is possible as they are powered not by motors but by external ...

A lot of you may even have one of the Swiss-made Victorinox multi-tools in your pocket ... looking for a nice, clean cut. Lay the stone flat on the table and wet it down. Place the knife's ...