Workers pulled these flints from groundwater under Cairo in 1905 and 1906. A new study reads them as a village blade workshop older than Egypt’s state, and the skill evidence holds up better than the claim of surplus. #Archaeology #AncientEgypt #StoneTools www.anthropology.net/p/2869-helio...
2,869 Heliopolis flints point to pre-state craft experts
A century-old museum collection suggests craft specialization in Predynastic Egypt began in villages, though its case for surplus is thinner.
www.anthropology.net
November 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Workers pulled these flints from groundwater under Cairo in 1905 and 1906. A new study reads them as a village blade workshop older than Egypt’s state, and the skill evidence holds up better than the claim of surplus. #Archaeology #AncientEgypt #StoneTools www.anthropology.net/p/2869-helio...
Tethered to stone: how rock and water availability shaped early desert occupation #Science #EarthSciences #Archaeology #rubalkhali #desertoccupation #earlyhumans #stonetools #freshwater
Tethered to stone: how rock and water availability shaped early desert occupation
Nature, Published online: 28 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03263-0Fresh water in deserts often points to sites with signs of early humans and stone tools. But, in Arabia’s Rub’ al Khali...
purescience.news
October 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Tethered to stone: how rock and water availability shaped early desert occupation #Science #EarthSciences #Archaeology #rubalkhali #desertoccupation #earlyhumans #stonetools #freshwater
Rad, a seven-year-old visitor from Hormozgan, practices photographing stone tools in the Paleolithic Department of the National Museum of Iran. A future researcher in the making. Shared with permission.
#NationalMuseumOfIran #Paleolithic #StoneTools #MuseumEducation
#NationalMuseumOfIran #Paleolithic #StoneTools #MuseumEducation
September 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Rad, a seven-year-old visitor from Hormozgan, practices photographing stone tools in the Paleolithic Department of the National Museum of Iran. A future researcher in the making. Shared with permission.
#NationalMuseumOfIran #Paleolithic #StoneTools #MuseumEducation
#NationalMuseumOfIran #Paleolithic #StoneTools #MuseumEducation
Another good day digging on the farm Friday
#arrowheads #history #prehistoric #nativeamerican #stonetools #lithics #smithforkcreek #middletennessee
#arrowheads #history #prehistoric #nativeamerican #stonetools #lithics #smithforkcreek #middletennessee
April 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Another good day digging on the farm Friday
#arrowheads #history #prehistoric #nativeamerican #stonetools #lithics #smithforkcreek #middletennessee
#arrowheads #history #prehistoric #nativeamerican #stonetools #lithics #smithforkcreek #middletennessee
Creekbank had a good exposed spot after the high waters. And I dug up this handful not too long ago.
#arrowheads #artifacts #stonetools #lithics #archeology
#arrowheads #artifacts #stonetools #lithics #archeology
March 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Creekbank had a good exposed spot after the high waters. And I dug up this handful not too long ago.
#arrowheads #artifacts #stonetools #lithics #archeology
#arrowheads #artifacts #stonetools #lithics #archeology
#smithforkcreek #middletennessee #dekalbcounty #arrowhead #artifact #archeology #stonetools #stoneknife #adenablade
February 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Small exhausted drill I dug up a couple weeks ago.
#smithforkcreek #arrowhead #drill #dekalbcounty #middletennessee #archaic #lithics #stonetools
#smithforkcreek #arrowhead #drill #dekalbcounty #middletennessee #archaic #lithics #stonetools
January 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Small exhausted drill I dug up a couple weeks ago.
#smithforkcreek #arrowhead #drill #dekalbcounty #middletennessee #archaic #lithics #stonetools
#smithforkcreek #arrowhead #drill #dekalbcounty #middletennessee #archaic #lithics #stonetools
Maybe I am late to the party... but I have just discovered the Museum of Stone Tools stonetoolsmuseum.com
Amazing 3D models from around the world.. how am I meant to get any work done now??
#StoneTools #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky
Amazing 3D models from around the world.. how am I meant to get any work done now??
#StoneTools #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky
Museum of Stone Tools
The Museum of Stone Tools is an online, open-access resource for learning about stone tools from all over the world.
stonetoolsmuseum.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Maybe I am late to the party... but I have just discovered the Museum of Stone Tools stonetoolsmuseum.com
Amazing 3D models from around the world.. how am I meant to get any work done now??
#StoneTools #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky
Amazing 3D models from around the world.. how am I meant to get any work done now??
#StoneTools #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world https://arstechni.ca... #australopithecus #paleoarchaeology #Archaeology #stonetools #hominins #Science #oldowan #science
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world https://arstechni.ca... #australopithecus #paleoarchaeology #Archaeology #stonetools #hominins #Science #oldowan #science
Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons https://arstechni.ca... #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleoarchaeology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #stonetools #Science #science
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons https://arstechni.ca... #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleoarchaeology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #stonetools #Science #science
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis https://arstechni.ca... #paleoanthropology #homofloresiensis #homoluzonensis #anthropology #Archaeology #homoerectus #stonetools #hominins #Science #Hobbits #science
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis https://arstechni.ca... #paleoanthropology #homofloresiensis #homoluzonensis #anthropology #Archaeology #homoerectus #stonetools #hominins #Science #Hobbits #science
Current work status - talking a load of old balls! #skarabrae #carvedstoneballs #neolithic #orkney #stonetools
November 16, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Current work status - talking a load of old balls! #skarabrae #carvedstoneballs #neolithic #orkney #stonetools
A case study based on my PhD research in the lower Exe valley has been published in @HistoricEngland guidance on lithic sites historicengland.org.uk/images-books... #lithicscatters #stonetools #Archaeology #Devon #UglowCollection #Mesolithic #Neolithic #BronzeAge @RAMMuseum
Managing Lithic Sites: Prehistoric Landscapes with Lithic Scatters in the Lower Exe Valley | Historic England
The study uses a number of surface lithic assemblages from a museum collection to investigate the changing character of prehistoric inhabitation.
historicengland.org.uk
November 11, 2024 at 11:07 PM
A case study based on my PhD research in the lower Exe valley has been published in @HistoricEngland guidance on lithic sites historicengland.org.uk/images-books... #lithicscatters #stonetools #Archaeology #Devon #UglowCollection #Mesolithic #Neolithic #BronzeAge @RAMMuseum
#museumsUnlocked #StoneTools. I'm being grown up & not mentioning that new work on primates & stone tool use (new meaning to a lithics handling session!)
Thought I'd share the axe Phil Harding made me 12yr ago. But I couldn't find it in the flat. Here's a Prof Nick Barton axe!
Thought I'd share the axe Phil Harding made me 12yr ago. But I couldn't find it in the flat. Here's a Prof Nick Barton axe!
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
#museumsUnlocked #StoneTools. I'm being grown up & not mentioning that new work on primates & stone tool use (new meaning to a lithics handling session!)
Thought I'd share the axe Phil Harding made me 12yr ago. But I couldn't find it in the flat. Here's a Prof Nick Barton axe!
Thought I'd share the axe Phil Harding made me 12yr ago. But I couldn't find it in the flat. Here's a Prof Nick Barton axe!
Cracking #StoneTools at the Russell Museum in NZ Bay of Islands. #MuseumsUnlocked
November 24, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Cracking #StoneTools at the Russell Museum in NZ Bay of Islands. #MuseumsUnlocked
New article!
'Lithic knapping strategies during the late Holocene: new analyses from Buterix 1, Eastern Cape, South Africa' in JAS: reports
Share Link valid until 05/12/25: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxrL,rVDB...
#LSA #LaterStoneAge #Archaeology #Stonetools #lithics #SouthAfrica
'Lithic knapping strategies during the late Holocene: new analyses from Buterix 1, Eastern Cape, South Africa' in JAS: reports
Share Link valid until 05/12/25: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxrL,rVDB...
#LSA #LaterStoneAge #Archaeology #Stonetools #lithics #SouthAfrica
October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
New article!
'Lithic knapping strategies during the late Holocene: new analyses from Buterix 1, Eastern Cape, South Africa' in JAS: reports
Share Link valid until 05/12/25: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxrL,rVDB...
#LSA #LaterStoneAge #Archaeology #Stonetools #lithics #SouthAfrica
'Lithic knapping strategies during the late Holocene: new analyses from Buterix 1, Eastern Cape, South Africa' in JAS: reports
Share Link valid until 05/12/25: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxrL,rVDB...
#LSA #LaterStoneAge #Archaeology #Stonetools #lithics #SouthAfrica
Million-Year-Old #StoneTools Unearthed in #Indonesia Challenge #HumanEvolution Timelines
scitechdaily.com/million-year...
scitechdaily.com/million-year...
Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Unearthed in Indonesia Challenge Human Evolution Timelines
Ancient tools found on Sulawesi suggest early humans crossed formidable seas over a million years ago, leaving behind mysteries about their identity and evolution. Researchers from Griffith University...
scitechdaily.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Million-Year-Old #StoneTools Unearthed in #Indonesia Challenge #HumanEvolution Timelines
scitechdaily.com/million-year...
scitechdaily.com/million-year...
Just published❗: our take on the 'costly knapping hypothesis', where we challenge the idea that the costs of knapping can be used to infer the evolution of know-how copying in the hominin lineage. #archaeology #stonetools #humanevolution link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Costs of Early Stone Toolmaking cannot Establish the Presence of Know-how Copying - Human Nature
Compared to other apes, humans show a distinctive capacity for the cultural learning and transmission of know-how: we extract know-how from other individuals and artifacts in ways that regularly give ...
link.springer.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Just published❗: our take on the 'costly knapping hypothesis', where we challenge the idea that the costs of knapping can be used to infer the evolution of know-how copying in the hominin lineage. #archaeology #stonetools #humanevolution link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
March 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Here, we propose a new perspective on early stone tool technology: emulation of naturally occurring sharp-edged stones (naturaliths) instead of inventing via 'Eureka!' moments. Nature provided the blueprint; hominins took it further.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
#Archaeology #Stonetools
I'm a jade blade guy, but this looks very like the Tenerean disc blades found in the western Sahara / sahel neolithic in Niger- here's a video of one being replicated in flint
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwz...
MYSTERY Of The Tenerean Disc - #stonetools #archeology #mystery #flintknapping #survival #bushcraft
YouTube video by Donny Dust’s Paleo Tracks
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm a jade blade guy, but this looks very like the Tenerean disc blades found in the western Sahara / sahel neolithic in Niger- here's a video of one being replicated in flint
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bwz...
September 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis #Technology #EmergingTechnologies #Other #HomoFloresiensis #Archaeology #StoneTools
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That's around the same time that the...
puretech.news
August 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis #Technology #EmergingTechnologies #Other #HomoFloresiensis #Archaeology #StoneTools
🪨🛠️ New Post is Up!
2025 is the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. It is *also* the 40th birthday of Deluxe Paint. Our first retrospective examines this classic hardware/software combo.
#RetroComputing #SoftwareArchaeology #Amiga #DeluxePaint #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
2025 is the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. It is *also* the 40th birthday of Deluxe Paint. Our first retrospective examines this classic hardware/software combo.
#RetroComputing #SoftwareArchaeology #Amiga #DeluxePaint #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga
Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars.
I was a Dan Silva groupie.
stonetools.ghost.io
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🪨🛠️ New Post is Up!
2025 is the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. It is *also* the 40th birthday of Deluxe Paint. Our first retrospective examines this classic hardware/software combo.
#RetroComputing #SoftwareArchaeology #Amiga #DeluxePaint #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
2025 is the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. It is *also* the 40th birthday of Deluxe Paint. Our first retrospective examines this classic hardware/software combo.
#RetroComputing #SoftwareArchaeology #Amiga #DeluxePaint #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/
We’re live! 🪨🛠️ Stone Tools soft-launch today, with the first proper post coming later this week. If you think retro-computing means more than just games, you’re in the right place.
#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #OfficeOfTheFuture #SoftwareArchaeology #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #OfficeOfTheFuture #SoftwareArchaeology #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
Introducing “Stone Tools”
A blog about the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.
stonetools.ghost.io
September 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We’re live! 🪨🛠️ Stone Tools soft-launch today, with the first proper post coming later this week. If you think retro-computing means more than just games, you’re in the right place.
#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #OfficeOfTheFuture #SoftwareArchaeology #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #OfficeOfTheFuture #SoftwareArchaeology #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/
Getting some stones drilled for an experiment. @LydieL23 @neoprego #CAPCULT #PrimateArchaeology #stonetools #primatology #brazilscience #SerraDaCapivara
May 3, 2019 at 12:35 PM
Getting some stones drilled for an experiment. @LydieL23 @neoprego #CAPCULT #PrimateArchaeology #stonetools #primatology #brazilscience #SerraDaCapivara