Archaeologists Sifted Through an Ancient Lakebed—And Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Tools
A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...
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Scientists try out Stone Age tools to understand how they were used
R esearchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica Stone Age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge. They found that a ...
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A Primer on Paleolithic Technology
Stereotypical ‘Later Stone Age tools', for example, are now recognized in many Middle Stone Age assemblages (e.g., McBrearty & Brooks 2000). Thus, Periods are not strict aggregates of discrete ...
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Dolní Věstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world
A tiny head carved from mammoth ivory looks back at us from the Stone Age. This sculpture, discovered at the archaeological ...
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KS2 History / PSHE and Social Studies: Discovering Stone Age tools made of flint
These tools were made a very, very long time ago. Over 10,000 years ago, in what we now call the Stone Age. And to show how long ago that is, I'm going to walk back in time. This is today.
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The Fenn Cache
The Clovis were a prehistoric people who flourished in North America at the end of the Ice Age ... stone core carried as source material, blades were fashioned into knives, scrapers, and other tools.