The life history of stone tools is intimately liked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic ...

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.

Imagine our early human ancestors standing in the ancient landscapes, thoughtfully examining rocks, deciding which to use for ...

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 ...

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well ...

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 ...

“Sex, Symmetry, and Silliness in the Bifacial World.” Antiquity 83:1163–1175. 2000 Hayden, B., Nora Franco, and Jim Spafford. “Keatley Creek lithic strategies ...