Pictured is a Still Bay bifacial point from Blombos Cave in South Africa made of silcrete and finished by pressure flaking, primarily at the tip. Image courtesy Science/AAAS A highly skillful and ...
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - A group of prehistoric people mastered a difficult and delicate process to sharpen stones into spears and knives at least 75,000 years ago, more than 50,000 years earlier than ...
Sophisticated methods of making sharp stone tools have been around a lot longer than archaeologists thought. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...