Culturally, anatomically modern humans and Neanderthals had similar stone tool technology, such as making tools using ‘Levallois methods’, which involved striking stones with a hammer-like tool.

Innovation in stone tool technology involved multiple stages at the time of modern human dispersals, study finds by Nagoya University Editors' notes ...

Archaeologists recently discovered 8,000-year-old stone fluted points on the Arabian Peninsula, the same technology developed by Native Americans 13,000 years ago.

An international research team led by Chinese scientists has found that East Asian hominins had possessed advanced stone tool technology as early as 1.1 million years ago, much earlier than ...

Innovative Stone Age tools may have been developed by people in Eurasia and -- contrary to widely held views -- not just invented in Africa, a new study suggests.

Stone tools were not just made from any stone – the process involved knowledge of the best stones to use, such as flint, quartzite, obsidian, or jasper (depending on what was locally available).

Neanderthals used stone tool tech once considered exclusive to Homo sapiens A child's molar from an Israeli cave links Neanderthals to the cave's stone tools.

New analysis of the 'Swiss Army knife of prehistoric tools' suggests stone tool technology developed independently in East Asia.

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