Middle Paleolithic (MP): A prehistoric Period ... usually to produce a sharper working edge. scraper: A tool form produced by retouching a flake into a relatively specific shape optimal for ...

For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides, wood, or bones. Once the hide was removed from an animal ...

we discovered 5,000 scraper tools and abundant animal fossils at the No.1 pit, dating back 75,000 to 63,000 years, which exhibit a strong Mousterian style - a hallmark of the Middle Paleolithic in ...

Stone tools from the Middle Paleolithic at Stajnia Cave: 1-3 Bifacial tools; 4 Preform of a bifacial tool; 5-8 Levallois flakes. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

A new Paleolithic ... It sits on a second-middle-level terrace on the south bank of the Duhe River at an altitude of about 385 meters. A large number of stone tools and mammal fossils were found ...