Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

New advice addresses research and management issues for sites where prehistoric stone tools contain unique evidence.

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

The Barranc de la Boella (La Canonja, Tarragona) was a true factory of prehistoric cutting-edge technology. Around 900,000 ...

The life history of stone tools is intimately liked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic ...

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

“Sex, Symmetry, and Silliness in the Bifacial World.” Antiquity 83:1163–1175. 2000 Hayden, B., Nora Franco, and Jim Spafford. “Keatley Creek lithic strategies ...

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5: 1–55. 1996 Hayden, Brian, Nora Franco, and Jim Spafford “Evaluating lithic strategies and design criteria.” In George Odell, (ed), Theory and behavior ...