The human Stone Age was ... the surface changes of the tools,” explained co-author Dr João Marreiros. “This demonstrates that ...

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

Around 40,000 years ago, Neanderthals living in what we now call France crafted tool handles using a special sticky substance ...

or the new stone age. The telltale sign of this period, between 9,600 and 4,000 BC, was the use of small chipped stone tools and retouched bladelets. They were also an artistic people ...