Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.

1996 Hayden, Brian, Nora Franco, and Jim Spafford “Evaluating lithic strategies and design criteria.” In George Odell, (ed), Theory and behavior from stone tools. Plenum Publishing: New York. Pp. 9–49 ...