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Later in the Palaeolithic, modern humans made Aurignacian industry flint tools that included pointed blades and more finely worked scrapers.

There are literally millions of arrowheads yet to be discovered in the landscape of North America.

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Note ancient impact chips on the ends.

Knowing about stone age tools and their uses is one way for the present people to understand more the Native Americans and what they went through in order to survive.

These flaking tools paved way to the creation of other stone tools and weapons.

The groups that lived here prior to around AD 1700 are usually called "prehistoric" because their accomplishments were not recorded in written documents to which we can have access today.

Ohio has been home for people for at least 15,000 years.

net and mention "DGAH1" I just received the pieces and all I can say is, wow! What makes flint so special? Palaeolithic tools have survived for hundreds of thousands of years, enduring repeated Ice Ages and being washed down rivers, but we can still pick them up, see how were made and say things about their makers.