A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...

Researchers have been exploring Iraq’s Western Desert to decode its geomorphological history and search for traces of early ...

This artifact was used to provide stone blades. Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core.

Those artifacts were created by peoples and cultures ... How did the Paleolithic archaeological record actually unfold? The emergence of stone tool technology represents — in hindsight ...

this artifact is similar to other Clovis blades. Flaked from a stone core carried as source material, blades were fashioned into knives, scrapers, and other tools. The edges of this blade are dull ...

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, Qafzeh, and Quneitra caves, were deliberately engraved with geometric ...

Although stone tools are more commonly found in archaeological settings ... Photographs by Mary Forbes, 2000-2001. All other photographs are artifacts in the gallery of the SFU Museum of Archaeology ...

A recent study has shed new light on the cognitive and cultural complexity of human societies during the Middle Paleolithic in the Levant. The research, led by Dr. Mae Goder-Goldberger (Hebrew ...

At the Melka Wakena site in the Ethiopian Highlands, researchers discovered a wide array of tools. But why were certain types of stone chosen ... for percussive artifacts in Melka Wakena, Ethiopia ...