Making Stone Cleavers - The Story of Prehistoric Cleavers

The Cleaver: a prehistoric stone tool, is a wonderful example of the skill and cognitive abilities of our earliest ancestors. Here, we bring alive the story of the cleaver weaving together the shape and form of the tool, ways in which it was made, experiments to replicate ancient techniques and interviews with experts in the field of prehistoric archaeology. One of the earliest examples of imposing symmetry and shape onto stone, the cleaver with a sharp cutting edge, was made by many different techniques, r