"Stone Tools in the Paleolithic and Neolithic Near East: A Guide surveys the lithic record for the East Mediterranean Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, and adjacent territories) from the ...

A study has revealed that the earliest Neolithic groups to settle some 7,000 years ago in the Pyrenean site of Coro Trasito (Tella, Huesca) used species selection strategies to manufacture their tools ...

Coping with climate change presents a number of challenges, but we may be able to get some hints from our ancestors. A study of tools from an archaeological site outside Jerusalem provides new ...

Use-wear analysis of grinding tools from the site of Jebel Oraf shows that the artifacts were used during the Neolithic, shedding new light on the subsistence and lifestyle of ancient peoples in the ...

This polishing stone is more than 5,000 years old and was once used to sharpen ax heads. Historic England Archive To the untrained eye, the modest gray boulder in a Dorset, England, field would be ...

For more than 1,000 years during the Neolithic period, pastoralists in central Anatolia decorated their razor-sharp obsidian ...

A set of carefully etched obsidian arrowheads stick out among other similar artifacts, but archaeologists in central Turkey ...

Two significant Neolithic archaeological sites, believed to be stone tool production centres, have recently been identified and documented by Yaakkai Heritage Trust. The sites are located on the ...

During the Neolithic Age (approximately 10000 BCE), early man evolved from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, living in larger, permanent settlements with a variety of domesticated animals ...

Coping with climate change presents a number of challenges, but we may be able to get some hints from our ancestors. A study of tools from an archaeological site outside Jerusalem provides new ...