As part of the Stone Dead project, the new research demonstrates how tools played an important role in Stone Age funerary rites. Discovered in in northern Latvia, these stone tools are from one of the largest Stone Age burial sites in Europe, Zvejnieki cemetery. from Image: University of YorkThe team also found that women were just as likely, if not more so, to be buried with stone tools than men. This flies in the face of a decades-old stereotype that Stone Age women didn’t use stone tools as frequently as men. The women were too busy cooking, crafting, and caring for the family to bother with the stone tools used by men in hunting and building.