Bone tools, including hide scrapers and stone-tool sharpeners ... Short, deep grooves and polish on these items resulted from scraping animal hides, the researchers say. The team unearthed ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping ... be handheld. Bone projectile points ...

A better tool is made from the bones of the caribou itself. In the following series of photographs, Mr. John Shae makes a hide scraper from a caribou metatarsal (lower leg bone). Warning: the pictures ...

For thousands of years before European contact, Native Americans used stone to create many of the tools that were ... associated with animal hide processing, used to scrape fat and muscle tissue ...

But the archaeological record also shows evidence that they made clothes, including hide-scraper tools used to scrape animal skins and bone awls used to punch holes for sewing. But then ...

while adze-type tools and chisel-type tools were used to scrape off the bark of fig and pine. They scraped flesh and grease from fresh and dry hides of deer and boar using adze-type and chisel ...

Unlike examples made by modern humans that are generally shaped by scraping and abrasion, these tools were primarily made by percussion. The discovery of a bone industry at Chez-Pinaud-Jonzac is ...

With tools from generations ago, the traditional skill of working with caribou hide is being passed down to students at Sheshatshiu Innu School. "The caribou skin was used for a long time, long ...

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives, hide scrapers, spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping ... be handheld. Bone projectile points ...