No two tools in the 2,000-year-old kit were the same, indicating the owner was skilled in precise stonework, according to the study.

Living in Skye 11,000 years ago required ancient people to adapt quickly to a rapidly changing climate and environment, according to the researchers. But the abundant stone tools and curious ...

They are the Clovis caches, groupings of exquisitely carved spear points and/or other flaked stone artifacts crafted ... hunter likely also carrying food, tools, and other items.

Evan Hadingham Another view of the same stone. Evan Hadingham View ... Korres concludes that the ancient masons, with their superior tools, could carve marble at more than double the rate of ...

(photo credit: Sara Watson) Archaeologists from the Field Museum unearthed thousands of ancient stone tools in a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, revealing ...

But Hardy and colleagues' discovery of numerous stone tools shaped into points, blades and scrapers in a style called Ahrensburgian — which was in use across north-central Europe during the Late ...

Photo by Aurora Pețan In 2022, a villager walking through the forest near the Măgura Călanului limestone quarry in Romania came across an ancient set of tools ... a master mason, Pețan said.