When monkeys in Thailand use stones as hammers and anvils to help them crack open nuts, they often accidentally create sharp flakes of rock that look like the stone cutting tools made by early humans.

The history and heritage of Ballyknockan village in west Wicklow was celebrated over five days as Féile an Chnocáin organised ...

Let's say you're on a construction project that requires you to machine steel and then cut granite. Tools that cut, grind, and polish have two essential requirements: they have to be harder than ...

I’ve made stone tools for 45 years ... like butchering, which often leaves cut marks on bones nearby? 3 Geometric morphometrics could shed some light on this. For instance, what would Shea ...

The finish cutting was done with a variety of simple hand tools of ancient design. These were struck by a hand hammer and included tools such as the set, point, tracer, chipper, drill, and chisel that ...

While working in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, Alemseged's "Dikika Research Project" team found fossilized bones bearing unambiguous evidence of stone tool use -- cut marks inflicted while carving ...

In 2025, the market for stone cutting saw blades is projected to be worth USD 0.88 billion. Over the course of the projected ...

Captive orangutans that had never seen stone tools have spontaneously picked up rocks and used them as hammers. One individual also used a sharp stone as a cutting tool. The finding suggests that ...

Humans do it to create sharp-edged tools for cutting things. The capuchins, in contrast, have never been seen using the flakes they make; they just lick the surface of the embedded stone ...

There were also telltale microscopic traces resulting from friction between the wood and stone edge. Cutting away at antlers and bones caused a lot of damage to the edges of adze-like tools ...