Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world. We ...

Researchers have found fossil evidence of varied creatures wooing and mating, as they continue to search for the telltale ...

Stone tools bear microscopic evidence of ancient plant technology, according to a study published June 30, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Hermine Xhauflair of the University of the ...

Prehistoric technology; an experimental study of the oldest tools and artefacts [sic] from traces of manufacture and wear [by] S.A. Semenov. Translated and with a pref. by M.W. Thompson ...

Prehistoric peoples developed multiple processes of striking these stones in precise, controlled ways to produce sharp-edged tools. This technology is now known as “flintknapping.” ...

In the right circumstances, a low-technology approach is more useful than high-technology and high-cost approaches, e.g., neutron activation, X-ray emission, thin-section analysis, in the study of ...