Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

In this video, Dug makes his own knapping tools from common Home Depot materials. Cool Tools’ Kevin Kelly has pointed out ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective pressure that led them to start knapping their own stone tools.

The process for the bone tools seems to be similar to how they crafted stone tools, a process dubbed “knapping,” as workers chipped small flakes away to form sharp edges. The markings on the ...

The transfer of stone tool knapping techniques to bone materials reveals cognitive abilities in early human ancestors that were previously thought to emerge much later in human evolution.

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