The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the Old and New Worlds was the blade flake, a thin, parallel-sided flake that is at least twice as long as it is wide. Blade flakes were ...

Like all but one of the Fenn artifacts, this point bears a residue of red ocher, an iron-rich pigment that Stone Age cultures often ... At over eight inches long and nearly one and a half pounds ...

RAKSHA DAVE: A very long time ago in ... How much of what we know is fact and how much is opinion? Children could draw their own version of the animals in the Stone Age, such as a massive woolly ...

but in fact it's a very carefully-shaped tool called a hand axe, made out of flint. These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age.