Paleolithic technologies reflect a vast range ... into more specific ‘flake tool' forms (e.g., a particular type of scraper, point, etc.). Prepared cores are generally not used for tasks other ...

The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both the ... Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools.

One of the most iconic of Paleolithic artifacts from the Stone ... The classic tools that we associate with that are hide scrapers or stone scrapers, and we find them appearing and going away ...