The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from ... that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping fur from ...

Why study Paleolithic technology ... ‘as-is', or be modified into more specific ‘flake tool' forms (e.g., a particular type of scraper, point, etc.). Prepared cores are generally not used ...

With over 70,000 stone artifacts discovered, the site, located across the Hutuoliang site from the Upper Paleolithic to ... we discovered 5,000 scraper tools and abundant animal fossils at the ...