Tools
In Europe a tool-making industry termed the Aurignacian is the characteristic toolkit of the later Old Stone Age. It features blades, points, scrapers, and burins of stone as well as tools worked from bone and antlers. One of the main diagnostic tools for the period is a type of spearhead made from bone with a split base. See also 33,000 bce Tools; 26,000 bce Tools.
In Australia, people begin to make edge-ground axes, thought to have been used for cutting branches off trees. The oldest known example is from Sandy Creek, Queensland. See also 130,000 bce Materials; 7500 bce Tools.
