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Stone tools and other archaeological remains from Shengavit, dating from c. 3500-2200 BCE. This settlement is an archaeological site located in Yerevan and is one of Armenia's most important Bronze Age sites.

As the Stone Age covers around 99% of our human technological history, it would seem there is a lot to talk about when looking at the development of tools in this period. Despite our reliance on the sometimes scarce archaeological record...

The appearance of simple stone tools, widely known as Oldowan tools or the Oldowan industry, marked the beginning of our technological revolution. To our knowledge, these artifacts appeared around 2.6 million years ago in the savannahs of...

A selection of worked stone tools and weapons from Poverty Point, Louisiana, USA. Dated to c. 1700-1100 BCE.

A collection of modern recreations of Stone Age tools. The picture above shows (from top right to bottom left): A hatchet with a wing spar, used for felling trees A straight hatchet for shortening smaller pieces of wood (with a piece...

From the dawn of our species to the present day, stone-made artefacts are the dominant form of material remains that have survived to today concerning human technology. The term “Stone Age” was coined in the late 19th century CE by the Danish...

Modern recreations of Stone Age tools: knives, arrows, hatchets, axes, and daggers, made of deer antlers. Pile-Dwelling Museum in Unteruhldingen at Lake Constance, Germany.

A board showing the tools commonly used by stone masons in the Middle Ages in Europe. On display at Guédelon castle in Treigny, Burgundy, France.

Drawings of stone tools belonging to the Middle Palaeolithic (sometimes called 'Mousterian') industries, found from Europe and the Near East to Africa between approximately 250,000 and 30,000 years ago. It is associated with archaic homo...

Group of polished stone tools from the Jomon Period.