Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and ...

A better tool is made from the bones of the caribou itself. In the following series of photographs, Mr. John Shae makes a hide scraper from a caribou metatarsal (lower leg bone). Warning: the pictures ...

Adze: A cutting tool, similar to an axe, where a bevelled stone blade is attached at a right angle to the ... is associated with the late Paleolithic and early Archaic periods. Scraper: A flake that ...

Our team, led by Hao Li of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research and Qijun Ruan of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, excavated Quina scrapers and related ...

The site yielded Quina scrapers and related stone tools that are connecting cultural dots between regions that had previously seemed isolated. The find occurred in an environment similar to that ...