Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

Acheulean: An Earlier Stone Age/Lower Paleolithic tool industry dating from ... more specific ‘flake tool' forms (e.g., a particular type of scraper, point, etc.). Prepared cores are generally ...

The objects are of a type that were made and used across Europe in the Upper Paleolithic period (the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic, or Old Stone Age), which covers the latter part ...

The paleolithic diet - or paleo diet - involves eating foods humans would have eaten during the Paleolithic Era - also known ...

The teeth were then packed with bitumen, a type of waterproof tar ... and you’ve got yourself a Paleolithic wrap. Misconception: Stone Age life was relentlessly serious and oppressive.

The Wenquan Paleolithic site in Ruzhou, Central China's Henan Province, has yielded a collection of Acheulean tools, including hand axes, thin-edged axes, and large stone knives. This marks the ...