When prehistoric people re-sharpened cutting tools 300,000 years ago, they dropped tiny chips of flint—which today yield evidence of how wood was processed by early humans. The small flint flakes were ...

Jan. 8 (UPI) --Hominins living near Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge were preferentially selecting material for different types of stone tools as early as 1.8 million years ago. New research suggests the ...

A long-tailed macaque uses a stone to get at food. The striking of one stone on another accidentally creates stone flakes the monkeys don't use. Lydia V. Luncz When monkeys use two rocks to smash open ...

Every archaeologist who has ever worked at Fort McCoy has encountered a specific type of artifact: the flake. Flakes, referred to as debitage in archaeological jargon, are pieces of stone waste left ...

A second flake, or hand tool, seen from three different angles, discovered in the Jordan Rift Valley. The flakes helped scientists date human migration.

Macaques in Thailand produced stone flakes while cracking nuts—a finding that could change what we thought about human history. Reading time 3 minutes Researchers studying macaques in one of ...