Prehistoric animals once roamed — and ruled — planet Earth. Some of them, like the giant sloth or the woolly rhino, were ...

This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that could have been used on animal hides ...

Paleolithic technologies reflect a vast range ... early hominins could easily slice through the thickened hides of larger-bodied animals (e.g., antelope and zebra), and readily access nutritious ...