#StoneTools
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
This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.
arstechnica.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🤖 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
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
October 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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
October 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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...
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.
www.anthropology.net
October 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
October 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
September 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"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
Early humans reached Europe via an Ice Age land bridge from Turkey
The never-before-studied region 'holds vital traces of early human activity.'
www.popsci.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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
September 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🪨🛠️ 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/
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.
stonetools.ghost.io
September 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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/
Introducing “Stone Tools”
A blog about the productivity software of the 8/16-bit era. No games, just work.
stonetools.ghost.io
September 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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
August 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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
August 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
August 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Upgrading your toolkit from simple choppers to sleek handaxes didn’t just make life easier—it rewrote the playbook. 🪓🪨 #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #ToolEvolution #StoneTools
August 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Upgrading your toolkit from simple choppers to sleek handaxes didn’t just make life easier—it rewrote the playbook. 🪓🪨 #PaleoPost #HumanOrigins #ToolEvolution #StoneTools
August 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🗓️ REMINDER: LEXA Seminar Today!
"Using sharp rocks to cut things: a decade of Lower Palaeolithic stone tool experiments and the prevalence of unanswered questions"
🔗 Re-register here: icarehb.com/lexa
#LEXA #Archaeology #ExperimentalArchaeology #Palaeolithic #StoneTools #ICArEHB
August 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Just published❗: our take on the 'costly knapping hypothesis', where we challenge the idea that the costs of knapping can be used to infer the evolution of know-how copying in the hominin lineage. #archaeology #stonetools #humanevolution link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Costs of Early Stone Toolmaking cannot Establish the Presence of Know-how Copying - Human Nature
Compared to other apes, humans show a distinctive capacity for the cultural learning and transmission of know-how: we extract know-how from other individuals and artifacts in ways that regularly give ...
link.springer.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM