In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, ...

Multidirectional core: A type of core where flakes are removed from multiple directions and with different striking platforms. Notches: Indentations on a stone tool that allows the lithic to be more ...

A Park County local resident donated remaining items from their rare collection of Clovis artifacts to the Alpine Ecosystems ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Ancient hominins may have used naturally occurring volcanic rock spheres as tools for over a million years. These basalt spheres, found at Pleistocene sites in ...

“The site, which abuts a large basalt flow associated with Jabal Juhayra, was initially described as a dense lithic scatter covering ... bladelet cores, and micro burins, all of which are ...

Chantel Smeysters graduated from SFU in 2017 with a BA in Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management. Her research interests include Northwest Coast lithic tool typologies, underwater archaeology, ...