Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, analyzed artifacts from the Lower Paleolithic ...

The 8th annual Jackson County Free Museum Day, hosted by Experience Jackson, will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May ...

Small ivory tools are far less efficient than stone tools of similar size. The Mohs hardness of dentin and cement layers is only 2 and 3–4, respectively, compared to 4–5 for siliceous limestone and ...

Lasting from about 2.6 million to 200,000 years ago, the Lower Palaeolithic – or Early Stone Age – saw the emergence of stone and bone tool production ... made of flint and quartz.

The discovery of ivory tools at Medzhybizh A challenges previous timelines of early human technology ... and bipolar-on-anvil knapping—methods usually reserved for stone tool production. Surfaces on ...

Educational opportunities allowed guests to learn about the culture of various tribes, including the Ho-Chunk, Sauk, ...

Flintknapping is a common term generally used to describe the technology employed to fashion tools from a variety of glassy silicates like obsidian, flint and agate. Early human cultures mastered the ...

early humans may have begun by using those they found precut. The idea might refashion how we envisage a step in our development as more important than any specific tool. “The secret is to bang ...

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