Astonishing #Neolithic find
In the #OuterHebrides
Well.. in the #Gneiss Things workshop anyway..
I totally forgot I’d #carved this!
Maybe I’ll make some more 🤔

#archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #history #stonetools #ancient #lost #treasure #madeinscotland #IsleofHarris #IsleofSkye #IsleofLewis #axe

🪨 Early Oldowan tech thrived during Pliocene environmental change in Kenya’s Turkana Basin.
#ICArEHB researchers Jonathan S. Reeves, René Bobe & Susana Carvalho with D. R. Braun et al. in Nature Communications: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41188262/
#Oldowan #HumanEvolution #StoneTools

Three days of sparks, stone, and scholarship.
www.instagram.com/p/DUupVHyAWS...
“Lithics and Lives” connected people immersed in the prehistoric past: linking ancient technologies with modern analytical frameworks
#Lithics #Prehistory #StoneTools #SCHE

Museum of Stone Tools The Museum of Stone Tools is an online, open-access resource for learning about stone tools from all over the world.

Maybe I am late to the party... but I have just discovered the Museum of Stone Tools stonetoolsmuseum.com
Amazing 3D models from around the world.. how am I meant to get any work done now??
#StoneTools #HumanEvolution #AcademicSky

🪨 How do #StoneTools survive millennia in the #Sahara? #ICArEHB’s Emanuele Cancellieri joins a team investigating #flint decay: doi.org/10.1007/s108...

I wanted to understand the first AI boom a little better, so I looked at how the #c64 was put to work in the #ai mines.

Japan's Fifth Generation Computing, Campbell's Soup, Sputnik, the movie PI, and a Connection Machine all make appearances.
Enjoy!

#stonetools #retrocomputing #computerhistory

News - Inside the Search for a Clovis Quarry in Maryland - Archaeology Magazine BALTIMORE COUNTY, MARYLAND—ABC News Baltimore reports that Maryland State Terrestrial Archaeologist Zachary Singer and State […]

MARYLAND: Recent reporting examines ongoing efforts to identify the chalcedony source area associated with Clovis-period lithic technology (ca. 13,000 years ago).

Read more: buff.ly/DqYb97Y

#Archaeology #Clovis #Maryland #Lithics #StoneTools #NorthAmericanArchaeology

1.5mya, humans engineered weapons, not just threw rocks. Stone points from Kathu Pan,SA, demonstrate early hafting and hunting technology before Homo sapiens. Innovation is ancient.

Paper: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Ev...
#PaleoTechnology #HumanOrigins #Archaeology #StoneTools #DeepTime

Stone tools didn’t start with Homo.
At Lomekwi 3 (Kenya), deliberately flaked stone tools dated to ~3.3 million years ago push toolmaking deep into early hominin evolution.
www.nature.com/articles/nat...

#HumanOrigins #Paleoanthropology #StoneTools

Archaeologists Unearth Cache of Aboriginal Stone Tools Buried in Australia 170 Years Ago Known as "tulas," the 60 artifacts are only the second discovery of this size to be found in Australia. Researchers think they may have been created for trade

Archaeologists Unearth Cache of Aboriginal Stone Tools Buried in Australia 170 Years Ago: Known as "tulas," the 60 artifacts are only the second discovery of this size to be found in Australia.… @SmithsonianMag #Archaeology #AboriginalCulture #StoneTools #HistoricalDiscovery #CulturalHeritage

Stones at the Edge of the Sea: What Terra Amata Says About Europe’s First Engineers On a Mediterranean shoreline 400,000 years ago, early humans worked humble limestone cobbles into flexible tools. Their choices reveal planning, restraint, and a surprising capacity to adapt.

At Terra Amata, early Europeans shaped local limestone into flexible tools 400,000 years ago. Simple methods hid careful planning, mobility, and early steps toward Levallois thinking in a dynamic coastal landscape.#Paleolithic #HumanEvolution #Archaeology #StoneTools

Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. T...

🌍 How did miniature #stonetools revolutionized technology on Africa's southern migration route?
Jeff Rose leads this study, with fellow #ICArEHB members Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, and Osama Samawi.
doi.org/10.1007/s419...
#Lithics #OutOfAfrica #Paleolithic

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world At a site in Kenya, archaeologists recently unearthed layer upon layer of stone stools from deposits that span 300,000 years, and include a period of intense environmental upheaval. The oldest tools at...

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HomininEvolution #StoneTools #PaleontologyInsights

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world.
This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.

#paleoanthropology #archaeology #StoneTools

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world https://arstechni.ca #australopithecus #paleoarchaeology #Archaeology #stonetools #hominins #Science #oldowan #science

Early Hominins Perfected a Stone Tool That Survived 300,000 Years of Climate Chaos Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of the longest-lasting technologies in human history.

Early Hominins Perfected a Stone Tool That Survived 300,000 Years of Climate Chaos #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Hominins #StoneTools #ClimateChange

🤖 Can #AI help #archaeologists identify how #stonetools were used?
#ICArEHB researchers A. Eleftheriadou, Y. Djellal, S.P. McPherron & J. Marreiros explore this with convolutional neural networks for #UseWear analysis.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#Archaeology #MachineLearning

Wear marks suggest Neanderthals made ocher crayons https://arstechni.ca #ancientpeopledidstuff #paleoarchaeology #Neanderthals #Archaeology #stonetools #Science #science

New article!

'Lithic knapping strategies during the late Holocene: new analyses from Buterix 1, Eastern Cape, South Africa' in JAS: reports

Share Link valid until 05/12/25: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxrL,rVDB...

#LSA #LaterStoneAge #Archaeology #Stonetools #lithics #SouthAfrica

The Myth of a Single Origin: How Two Worlds Shaped the Dawn of Modern Toolmaking New research challenges the long-held idea that Europe’s earliest modern humans simply borrowed their technology from the Near East.

New research overturns the idea that Europe’s first modern humans copied their tools from the Near East—showing innovation sparked independently on both sides of the Mediterranean. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #StoneTools #Paleolithic www.anthropology.net/p/the-myth-o...

I spent some time getting to know Superbase on the C64. While using it, I was revisited by a ghost from the past who tried to make trouble for me. When all hope was lost, with the power of BASIC, I overcame my enemy. Intrigued to know more? Read on!
#retrocomputing #stonetools #superbase #c64

#RememberWhen? #StoneTools

Early humans reached Europe via an Ice Age land bridge from Turkey The never-before-studied region 'holds vital traces of early human activity.'

"Most Pleistocene migratory investigations remain focused on regions far removed from the Aegean coast. But with these discoveries, Özçelik and Karahan argue that a reorientation to include areas like Ayvalık is much overdue."
🪨🪓🏹⚒️ #StoneTools #Turkey #Paleolithic #Archaeology #Prehistory

Toolmakers walked the earth long before Homo habilis. At Lomekwi, 3.3 million years ago, our ancestors were already striking stone against stone—reshaping survival itself. #DeepTime #StoneTools #PaleoPost

Deluxe Paint on the Commodore Amiga Back when EA was cool, they packaged their software in album-style sleeves and promoted their developers like rock stars. I was a Dan Silva groupie.

🪨🛠️ New Post is Up!
2025 is the 40th birthday of the Commodore Amiga. It is *also* the 40th birthday of Deluxe Paint. Our first retrospective examines this classic hardware/software combo.
#RetroComputing #SoftwareArchaeology #Amiga #DeluxePaint #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/deluxepaint-amiga/

Introducing “Stone Tools” A blog about the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.

We’re live! 🪨🛠️ Stone Tools soft-launch today, with the first proper post coming later this week. If you think retro-computing means more than just games, you’re in the right place.
#RetroComputing #ComputerHistory #OfficeOfTheFuture #SoftwareArchaeology #StoneTools
stonetools.ghost.io/introducing/

Online Workshop!

Introduction to the Art of Flintknapping with Michael Miller

November 14, 2-4pm ET

This flintknapping workshop will focus on developing the basic skills needed to craft stone into both tools and art.

#flintknapping, #stonetools, #workshop, #learnonline, #flint, #arrowheads

Million-Year-Old Stone Tools Unearthed in Indonesia Challenge Human Evolution Timelines Ancient tools found on Sulawesi suggest early humans crossed formidable seas over a million years ago, leaving behind mysteries about their identity and evolution. Researchers from Griffith University...

Million-Year-Old #StoneTools Unearthed in #Indonesia Challenge #HumanEvolution Timelines

scitechdaily.com/million-year...

The Acheulean handaxe was the ultimate trendsetter—lasting nearly 2 million years! Symmetrical, standardized, and spread across continents, it was more than a tool: it was the Paleolithic’s signature look. #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #StoneTools #FossilFriday #PaleoClub

Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis Some stone tools found near a river on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi suggest that the first hominins had reached the islands by at least 1.04 million years ago. That's around the same time that the...

Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #HomoFloresiensis #StoneTools #Evolution