Around 7000 years ago, long knives, bracelets and other stone goods fashioned by skilled Parisian crafters were reaching people hundreds of kilometres away, via complex trade networks that are now ...
The researchers propose that a Stone Age pandemic originated in small farming ... Plague is now treatable with antibiotics if caught early. In 2001, biologists in England successfully decoded ...
The course provides a general understanding of Stone Age technologies, concentrating but not exclusively limited to lithic (stone) technology. The curriculum places the manufacture and use of lithic ...
This means the archaeological record of human tool use is deeply skewed towards the much hardier stone. All this suggests ... tools and the dawn of the Stone Age over 3 million years ago.
Not only have the researchers dated the mine to an age of around 48,000 years, but they were also able to show how the ochre spread from the mine to nearby areas. The researchers analysed 173 samples ...