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Scrapers come in any number of shapes and sizes, and may be carefully shaped and prepared, or simply a pebble with a sharp edge.

If you understand how the tools were used, a lot of the nonsense falls away- if it didn't work that well, they wouldn't have bothered to use it- they weren't stupid! Stone scrapers from Mousterian sites in Israel, 250,000-50,000 years BP.

Look for discolorations on a piece of limestone.

Archeologists have found tools made of Vanport Flint as far away as the Rocky Mountains and Gulf of Mexico.

Just below the remains of the platform there will in most cases will be a sharp little point at the precise spot where the flake was struck by the hammer stone.

Blades: Blades are chipped stone tools which are always at least twice as long as they are wide with sharp edges on the long edges.

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The natural thermal fractures can be seen as concentric rings whilst the deliberately struck scars have rings that start from the edges of the flint and radiate inwards.

- Have I found a Stone Age tool? Flint is one of the best stones there is for creating a reliable tool, particularly if you need one with a sharp edge, and ancient people around the world discovered that.