Archaeologists excavating at Melka Kunture uncovered almost 600 obsidian stone tools and identified the oldest known “workshop,” study says. Photo from the Italo-Spanish archaeological mission at ...
Was it a stone tool or just a rock? An archaeologist explains how scientists can tell the difference
Have you ever found yourself in a museum’s gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled “stone tools,” muttering under your breath, “How do they know it’s not just any old ...
CHUKOTKA, RUSSIA—Haaretz reports that ancient obsidian tools have been found at a Mesolithic site in the Arctic Circle by a team of researchers led by Vladimir Pitulko of the Russian Academy of ...
Have you ever wondered how you might survive out in the wild with absolutely nothing and everything you needed had to be either gathered, hunted, or handcrafted? How would you make the necessary tools ...
About 320,000 ago, life for ancient humans living in Kenya’s Olorgesailie Basin was especially rough. At the time, the climate there fluctuated between extreme moist and arid states, earthquakes ...
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