Paleolithic tools were relatively simple, repeated small flakes being struck or pressed from a cobble or nucleus until the required shape was achieved.

Japanese Paleolithic tool implements thus display Mesolithic and Neolithic traits as early as 30,000 BC.

The little museum in Kelvedon has a bit of this and that relating to the history of the region: in one corner are Paleolithic and Neolithic tools and on a shelf stands a 300-year-old stoneware jar about 18 inches high in which a special brew was concocted by mixing urine with hair, pins and needles.

In the cave, situated near Rignano Garganico, there are more than 45,000 individual finds, including Paleolithic tools, human and animal bones.

Paleolithic tools have been found here, and there are several Bronze Age barrows within the parish.

There have been findings of Paleolithic and Mesolithic tools in the city area Forsbach.

A few finds of Paleolithic tools indicate the use of the area by Old Stone Age hunters during previous inter-glacial periods, but the Forest as we know it originated in the Atlantic period: the warm, wet phase which followed the retreat of the last Ice Age in Britain, some 7000 years ago.

With the discovery of Paleolithic tools in the Biharinath area, the hill and the surrounding areas have come into focus of archaeologists.

The museum displays over 400 original Paleolithic tools, musical instruments and other objects gathered from Altamira as well as from other caves in Europe.

In 1962 various Paleolithic tools were discovered at Mt. Songinokhairkhan as well as Buyant-Ukhaa (23 stone tools) that scholars date from 300.000 years ago to 40.000-12.000 years ago.