Boomerangs are among the most recognisable elements of Australian Aboriginal
technology. In the popular mindset, the prevailing image of these wooden artefacts is that of …

Did Neanderthal produce a bone industry? The recent discovery of a large bone tool
assemblage at the Neanderthal site of Chagyrskaya (Altai, Siberia, Russia) and the …

Abstract The Quina Mousterian is one of the well-defined Middle Paleolithic techno-
complexes. Despite the pivotal research carried out in south-western France, the presence …

Bone retouchers are an important behavioural marker in the definition of several Lower,
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic cultural complexes. However, their relationship with the …

Neanderthal behavior is a widely explored topic in Western Eurasia and is commonly driven
by reference studies on the lithic industries. Amongst the large variability expressed by this …

Debates on the cognitive and technological capacities of hominins often focus on the
production of artifacts from organic materials (Klein 1989; Mellars and Stringer 1989; …

Australian lithic assemblages contain a great number of retouched tools. Despite this fact,
however, material evidence for, and studies, on the retouching tools utilised to create these …

Retouched lithic tools result from the functional modification of their edges following
knapping operations. The study of the later stages of the reduction sequence is fundamental …

Bone retouchers, while often underrated, stand out as widespread tools throughout the
Palaeolithic, typically linked to breaking bones for marrow extraction. Although bone …

The presence or absence of handaxes endures as the major criterion of Lower Palaeolithic
classification, with contemporaneous core-and-flake industries modelled as simpler …