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The earliest stone tools to date have been found at the site of Lomekwi 3 (LOM3) in Kenya and they have been dated to around 3.3 million years ago. [1] The archaeological record of lithic technology is divided into three major time periods: the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Stone Age). Not all ...
Shoe-last celts at the Fritzlar regional museum, Hesse, Germany. A shoe-last celt (German: Schuhleistenkeil) is a long thin polished stone tool for felling trees and woodworking, characteristic of the early Neolithic Linearbandkeramik and Hinkelstein cultures, also called Danubian I in the older literature.
Stone tools found from 2011 to 2014 at the Lomekwi archeology site near Lake Turkana in Kenya, are dated to be 3.3 million years old, and predate the genus Homo by about one million years. [5] [6] The oldest known Homo fossil is about 2.4–2.3 million years old compared to the 3.3 million year old stone tools. [7]
Tool size: This can be determined by either weight or dimensions and typically divided into either large or small scrapers. Tool shape: There are many different shapes scrapers can be, including rectangular, triangular, irregular, discoidal, domed, or keeled. In many cases it can be hard to determine the classification for the shape of the scraper.
In the archaeology of the Stone Age, an industry or technocomplex [1] is a typological classification of stone tools. An industry consists of a number of lithic assemblages , typically including a range of different types of tools, that are grouped together on the basis of shared technological or morphological characteristics. [ 2 ]
1.2-1.4 Spain Western Europe Stone tools, animal bones, bone flakes Bois de Riquet US 2 [53] [54] 1.2 France Western Europe Stone tools Wolo Sege, So'a Basin [55] 1 Flores, Indonesia Island Southeast Asia H. floresiensis (presumed) Stone tools Happisburgh [56] 0.9–0.7 Great Britain Western Europe Stone tools Kalinga site [57] 0.7 Luzon ...
Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The chipped stones ...
It spans the time from around 2.5 million years ago when the first evidence of craft and use of stone tools by hominins appears in the current archaeological record, until around 300,000 years ago, spanning the Oldowan ("mode 1") and Acheulean ("mode 2") lithic technology. Stone tool use – early human (hominid) use of stone tool technology ...