Lithic miniaturization was one of our Pleistocene ancestors' more pervasive stone tool
production strategies and it marks a key difference between human and non‐human tool …

Stone tools are the least familiar objects that archaeologists recover from their excavations,
and predictably, they struggle to understand them. Eastern Africa alone boasts a 3.4 million …

In line with engineering research focusing on metal tools, techniques to record the attribute
of 'edge sharpness' on stone tools can include both mechanical and micro-geometric …

The copper-using cultures of North America's Archaic Period (10,000–3000 BP) have long
been an archaeological enigma. For millennia, Middle and Late Archaic hunter-gatherers …

The edge angle of lithic tools is an important source of information on the intended function
and the manufacturing technology of these artifacts. Yet, previously proposed procedures …

For more than 1.8 million years hominins at Olduvai Gorge were faced with a choice:
whether to use lavas, quartzite or chert to produce stone tools. All are available locally and …

The application of micro-and nanotechnology, adopted from engineering and materials
sciences, is proving valuable in studying stone tool surfaces. Measurement systems for …

The Wallacean archipelago between the Indian and Pacific Oceans is a critical
biogeographic boundary for all kinds of animals, from butterflies to birds. Humans are no …

The transition from hand-held to hafted tool technology marked a significant shift in
conceptualizing the construction and function of tools. Among other benefits, hafting is …

Abstract The Middle to Later Stone Age transition is a critical period of human behavioral
change that has been variously argued to pertain to the emergence of modern cognition …