ABSTRACT
Humans made the first stone tools some two million years ago. The first ceramics were made only ten thousand years ago. That means that lithics have been in use by humans more than two hundred times as long as ceramics! Lithics are, in fact, the primary archaeological remains for more than 99 percent of human history, and that’s really a very good thing because the analysis of stone tools can tell us an enormous amount about the past. Before learning something about how archaeologists analyze stone tools, let’s learn a bit more about stone tools themselves.1
