Microwear (use-wear) analysis is a powerful method for identifying tool use that
archaeologists and anthropologists employ to determine the activities undertaken by both …

Homo sapiens was present in northern Asia by around 40,000 years ago, having replaced
archaic populations across Eurasia after episodes of earlier population expansions and …

Evidence of Oldowan tools by∼ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) may signal a major adaptive shift
in hominin evolution. While tool-dependent butchery of large mammals was important by at …

The identification of the use of stone tools through use-wear analysis was one the major
methodological advances in Prehistoric Archaeology during the second half of the 20th …

Metalwork wear-analysis has now been practised for over two decades. In this paper the
authors present the achievements of the discipline and critically assess the methodologies …

In prehistoric human populations, technologies played a fundamental role in the acquisition
of different resources and are represented in the main daily living activities, such as with …

Stone artifacts from Schöningen 12 and 13 were examined microscopically to identify
residues, wear, and manufacturing traces in order to clarify their possible anthropogenic …

ABSTRACT Evidence of late Early Pleistocene elephant butchery activity has been
excavated in the Pit 1 locality at Barranc de la Boella (Catalonia, Spain). The fossil …

When and where cereal cultivation and domestication took place in the Near East are still
matters of debate. This quantitative analysis, using confocal microscopy to study “sickle …

South American lithic cleavers are heavy curved artifacts distributed throughout the tropical
Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest in the southeastern lowlands of the subcontinent. The most …