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🪨 Decoding #Acheulean percussive technology — #ICArEHB researchers Eduardo Paixão, João Marreiros & Erella Hovers co-author this open access study on #UseWear traces in stone tools.
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July 24, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Diving head first into our 66th meeting #HOG2025 with talks on #LowerPalaeolithic & #MiddlePalaeolithic topics. What a blast to hear about all the research going on all over the world! 🌍🪨🦴🔬

#archaeology #palaeolithic #lithictechnology #chronology ##zooarchaeology #palaeoenvironment #science
April 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Interested in Cores-on-Flakes and Splits?

Our new paper is finally online, and open-access!

►►► "The use of splits and flakes as blanks for debitage or shaping: examples from the late Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Southern France" journals.openedition.org//paleo/10157

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November 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Eleven finely made stone bifaces, never used, buried in Ohio — and nobody knows why. A new study on the Joshua Cache shows how much a single find can reveal, and how little it can prove. #Archaeology #EasternWoodlands #LithicTechnology www.anthropology.net/p/eleven-bla...
Eleven Blades in the Ground: The Strange Problem of the Joshua Cache
A golf course in Ohio just gave archaeologists eleven beautifully made, completely unused stone tools — and a question they can’t fully answer.
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June 6, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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New geochemistry study traces 780,000-year-old basalt handaxes & cleavers at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov to specific flows, including ones now buried. Cleaver makers went to different sources than handaxe makers. Deep knowledge, long tradition. #Acheulian #Paleoanthropology #LithicTechnology
What the Stone Remembers
Geochemistry is tracing 780,000-year-old procurement decisions at one of the Levant’s most important Acheulian sites
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June 8, 2026 at 10:26 PM
And what else do we like besides retouch? More retouch! ##lithictechnology #lithics #archaeology #sonorandesert #tucson
March 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
New paper out: Traditional manufacture of granite grinding stones in South India: showing why grinding stones mattered for subsistence, ritual, and identity.

Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1080/0197...

#LithicTechnology #Neolithic #StoneCraft #ArchaeologyIndia #grindingstone
October 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM