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 fur from animal hides. For European and ...

Anyone who has driven a car in Minnesota over a winter or two is familiar with the three basic types of windshield ice scrapers. There’s the one-hander, a sort of short spatula small enough to fit in ...