This hafted stone macroblade knife is from Australia and dates to the early or middle 20th century. You can view the model and learn about Australian stone tools here:
stonetoolsmuseum.com/artefact/austr…
#archaeology #stonetools #museumofstonetools

Fabulous archaeological context, showing the grave of a Chalcolithic person holding a dagger in their hand.

Our Conference is half a day away! As a committee, we are incredibly excited to meet our attendees and speakers and see our lithic exhibits.

There is still time to get a ticket if you are interested! You can buy yours here: eventbrite.com/e/lss-conferen…

#Lithics #LSS2023 #Conference

Our 400th 3D model was just uploaded into the Museum of Stone Tools! This Mesolithic flint tranchet axe is from Denmark, dating to ca. 8000-11,000 BP. Visit this artefact plus our other 399 models here: stonetoolsmuseum.com
#stonetools #archaeology #mesolithic

This Kanawha Point is from the Early Archaic period in Indiana, ca. 7800-8300 BP. You can view the model and learn about Kanawha Points here: stonetoolsmuseum.com/.../nort.../ka…
#archaeology #stonetools #museumofstonetools

Our new blog post by archaeologist Oleksandr Naumenko describes destruction and looting by Russian armed forces, and the Lower Palaeolithic stone tools of Ukraine.

#UkraineWar #culturalheritage #stonetools #Archaeology

stonetoolsmuseum.com/discussion/arc…

Cultural exchange between Samoa and Sweden, focussing on stone tools.

#stonetools #lithics #Samoa

samoaobserver.ws/category/samoa…

This MacCorkle Point was made during the Early Archaic period in Ohio, ca. 8500-9000 BP. Visit the Museum of Stone Tools to see 3D models of stone tools from all over the World: stonetoolsmuseum.com
#stonetools #flintknapping #archaeology #lithics #museumofstonetools

Barbed-and-tanged arrowhead from Ireland dating to the Bell Beaker period, ca. 4100-4500 BP. Visit the 3D model here and learn more about Bell Beaker arrowheads:
stonetoolsmuseum.com/.../barbed-and…
#arrowhead #neolithic #stonetools #archaeology #museumofstonetools

Stemmed scraper from the Jomon period in Japan, ca. 2500-5500 BP. Visit the 3D model here to learn more about Jomon stone tools:
stonetoolsmuseum.com/.../stemmed-re…
#Jomon #stonetools #museumofstonetools #archaeology

Aug 9 is UNESCO's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. To celebrate Australian Indigenous traditional knowledge systems, here is a Pirri point of the Kokatha People.
stonetoolsmuseum.com/regions/

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #stonetools #archaeology #museumofstonetools

This is the most exciting stone tool discovery in Indonesia for many years. These are previously unknown technologies and tool types for the region. Congratulations to the research team!
#stonetools #archaeology

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Middle Paleolithic technology from Experimental Archaeology 👇🏻

CENIEH CENIEH_Labs

~162,000 year old heat-treated silcrete point from Pinnacle Point 13B.

Great field work week in the South of France with Cyril Viallet (PI), Cyrielle Mathias, Louis De Weyer, Laurence Bourguignon & Jérôme Ivorra 🤠🦾🪨 #basalt #giantflake #experimentalarchaeology #occitanie
Science & recherche au Muséum

Excavations at Nunalleq are back in full flow this summer. Rick and Charlotta are back in Alaska, and already the site is revealing it’s amazing #Archaeology . Found today, an Uluaq with a blade of ground green slate still hafted into its original wooden handle #nunalleq #Alaska

Obsidian blade core is from the Classsic Mayan period, ca. 1000-1700 BP. Visit the model at this link to learn more about obsidian pressure blades in Mesoamerica: stonetoolsmuseum.com/.../north.../b…
#stonetools #mayan #aztec #obsidian #museumofstonetools #archaeology

This large retouched chert macroblade is from Neolithic period in the Tilemsi region of eastern Mali, ca. 4500-7500 BP. View the 3D model of this stone tool here:
stonetoolsmuseum.com/.../macroblade…
#stonetools #archaeology #Neolithic #lithics #museumofstonetools

This jadeite stone adze is from New Zealand. The adze was made sawing and snapping followed by grinding. Visit the 3D model at this link and learn more about Maori stoneworking: stonetoolsmuseum.com/art.../oceania…

#Maori #archaeology #stonetools #jade