Stone Age Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When we discuss the Stone Age today, we often highlight the personal stories of individuals, such as the renowned glacier man "Ötzi." This focus
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The discovery of a settlement approximately 100 meters from the Israeli coastline has yielded significant archaeological findings. This site, dating back more than
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient DNA from bones and teeth suggests plague's role in Stone Age population decline. One of the complete skeletons found in the Frälsegården
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 1916, a road ascending towards the Fausland farm, located on the island of Hitra, Norway, underwent a process of enhancement and refurbishment.
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While conducting a mineral survey on the Baltic Sea floor, scientists stumbled upon an unanticipated discovery that provided evidence of early European hunting
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The activities of Stone Age people extended beyond hunting and seeking shelter. Prior research indicates that the practice of personal adornment has been
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Earth Changes
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age people must have been surprised and horrified when the gigantic water waves reaching 20 meters wiped out their dwellings. Some of
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is a large prehistoric hunter-gatherer cemetery south of the Arctic Circle. Scientists call the place a cemetery even though the graves are
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In a twist in the ancient human story, emerging evidence suggests that we may have worn shoes as early as the Middle Stone
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For thousands of years, beavers had a big influence on the Dutch ecosystem and the people that lived there. This is the conclusion
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - To most people, complex technologies separate modern humans from their ancestors who lived in the Stone Age, thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. In
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Half a million years ago, earlier than was previously thought possible, humans were building structures made of wood, according to new research by
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age humans may have made extended maritime voyages on the Caspian Sea, according to a new study published in the journal Open Archaeology.
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a new study published in Science,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have discovered Homo sapiens did indeed live and survive in the Kalahari Desert more than 20,000 years ago. Griffith University archaeologist Dr.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the Stone Age, pendants with potent symbolism were made from animal teeth and bones, adorning clothes or accessories and serving as rattles.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As most archaeological material is found in a fragmented state, the phenomenon has been considered a natural consequence of objects' having been long
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An African man who lived just 350 years ago was buried in a prehistoric shell midden in Amoreira in Portugal. This was very
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Stone Age cities sound like something of an oxymoron. But as many as 10 000 people lived in Çatalhöyük in Turkey some 8000-9000
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists have discovered North Africa's oldest Stone Age hand-axe dating back 1.3-million years. The find made during excavations at a quarry on the
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Cosquer Cave is the world's only underwater Stone Age cave and a marvelous place where archaeologists have discovered mysterious paintings created by our
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Something strange took place around 2,500 B.C. in Britain. For some reason, Stone Age builders were suddenly in a hurry and they constructed
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Previously unknown motifs depicted on south-west Sweden’s best-preserved rock paintings have now been revealed by researchers at the University of Gothenburg. The art
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Under the North Sea lies a huge rural area, known as “Doggerland” and dating back to 7,000 years ago. It is now submerged beneath
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Ausevik rock art site at Høydalsfjorden, in Sunnfjord, in Western Norway, contains more than 300 rock carvings of different shapes, of which many
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Ancient History Facts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When and where the boomerang was invented is not entirely clear, but archaeological discoveries reveal the object has a very ancient history. It
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A submerged Stone Age settlement has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Kuolimojarvi in Finland. The prehistoric settlement is offering archaeologists and unique opportunity to learn
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Once again, it’s time to reconsider our understanding of Stone Age people who were much smarter than we think. In schools today, children learn that Stone people
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Doggerland was once considered the real heartland of Europe until sea levels rose to give us the UK coastline of today. What was life in ancient Doggerland?
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