Bone tools have been created by hominins for millions of years, with the earliest evidence for the manufacture of ...

A recent archaeological discovery in Ukraine has rewritten the timeline for when human beings began using ivory to construct ...

mimicking adult knapping as part of early social learning. The goal, in this case, was not a functional tool, but rather a 'pretend' tool—possibly a play object or training piece," Stepanchuk ...

Ivory doesn’t hold up as well against weathering as bone, making it a less suitable material for toolmaking, researchers said. It also breaks into smaller pieces, making it harder to use with any deal ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or ...

Some of the “fragments show cut marks” and evidence of “knapping,” a technique typically used on pieces of flint to carve and shape the stone into usable tools, researchers said.

"Most of what they found is evidence of flint knapping," breaking flakes off a stone to create tools, he continued. "The first humans in the area resided here. Barton Creek and Barton Springs have ...

These were split and then modified using a similar knapping (i.e., chipping ... unlike most lithic materials used to make stone tools (e.g., chert, flint, obsidian), which often preserve ...