History and heritage in Northwest New Jersey Skylands: For over 12,000 years the Lenape and their ancestors occupied northwestern New Jersey. Who were they? How did they live? What kinds of tools did they make and use? Archaeologists have been trying to answer these questions for over a century.

Solutrean - the peak of stone tools

Metates, manos, and mortars & pestles found in Arizona.

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It is debated that around 12,000 years ago the first peoples set foot in the Midwest, coming up from the south, as the land to the north was still covered by the Wisconsin glacier of the Ice Age. As the climate warmed and the ice receded plant and animal life re-established. Animal life was quite different than today with varities of megafauna, distinctly large animals of this period - mammoth, mastodon, giant bison, ground sloths, and beaver. Also found was the camel, horse, peccary, and…

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AX: one of the last major categories of stone tool to be invented, around the end of the last Ice Age in the Paleolithic. It is a flat, heavy cutting tool of stone or metal (bronze) in which the cutting edge is parallel to the haft and which might have the head and handle in one piece. Its main function was for woodworking (hewing, cleaving, or chopping trees) but it was also used as a weapon of war, as the battle ax. There are many forms of ax, depending on the different materials and…

In just several days, sculptor Simon Verity recreated a 13th century statue head that was once in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and is now part of the Nasher Museum of Art's collection. Duke students and museum staff learned a lot by observing the sculpture come to life. Above a video report from Julie Schoonmaker tells how he did it.For nearly 50 years, Verity has used the ancient tools of the medieval sculptor to modern design and carving work on the West Portal of the Cathedral of St…

Survival Skills: How to Make Sharp Stone Tools—Easily! A knife is probably the most basic and valuable survival tool. But what if you would find yourself somehow without your knife? Before our modern day metal knives, stone tools were used, and used quite successfully too. Perhaps we can learn something from the tools of our ancestors. Here is an article to show you how you too can make your own sharp and stone tools.