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Ancient Tools Found In Maryland Re-Write The History Of First Humans In America

AncientPages.com | May 29, 2024

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The timing of the first human arrival in the Americas has been a subject of intense scientific debate for years. However, a scientist affiliated

Rare Mammoth Ivory Tool Offers Evidence Of Ropemaking In Central Europe 35,000 Years Ago

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Rare Mammoth Ivory Tool Offers Evidence Of Ropemaking In Central Europe More Than 35,000 Years Ago

AncientPages.com | February 5, 2024

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The rope is one of the oldest human tools, and it played a crucial role in the daily lives of many ancient civilizations.

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Little Known Neanderthal Technology Examined – Turning Bones Into Tools

AncientPages.com | June 19, 2023

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the

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80,000-Year-Old Bone Tools Discovered In South Africa Sheds New Light How Homo Sapiens Evolved

AncientPages.com | December 5, 2022

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Until the beginning of this century, the production of fully worked bone tools was considered an innovation introduced in Europe around 40,000 years

Analysis Of Ancient Tools Challengea Long-Held Ideas About What Drove Major Changes In Ancient Greek Society

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Analysis Of Ancient Tools Challenges Long-Held Ideas About What Drove Major Changes In Ancient Greek Society

AncientPages.com | August 23, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where

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Tool Patterns Reveal What Caused The Neanderthals’ Extinction In The Iberian Peninsula

AncientPages.com | March 30, 2022

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Neandertals disappeared around 40,000 years ago, but many details of their extinction remain unclear. To elucidate the situation, it is useful to explore

A brief visualisation of an exotic stone found at a 15,000-year-old hunter-gatherer settlement in Jersey. The site, Les Varines, offers great views over landscapes now drowned by the English Channel. It is located in the Jersey parish of St Saviour and has produced over 5,000 scattered stone artefacts during the past five years of excavation, but in the summer of 2015 the team unearthed denser concentrations of tools and burnt bone and, for the first time, fragments of engraved stone. These are currently under study in an attempt to unravel the significance of these unique finds.

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Ice Age Engraved Stones, Tools Unearthed At Jersey Hunter-Gatherer Site Dated To Magdalenian Culture

AncientPages.com | November 3, 2015

AncientPages.com - Archaeologists find Ice Age engravings, tools and burnt bone within "very rare" British settlement at Jersey. Archaeologists say hunter-gatherers from the Magdalenian culture of between 16,000 and