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Stone Age quiz: What do you know about the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic?
Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3.3 million to 12,000 years ago), ...
Archaeologists Found a 7,500-Year-Old Antler. Turns Out It’s a Sacred Weapon.
According to the study of the antler, when a Stone Age craftsman originally discovered it, they first ground down and ...
Amber “Gummy Bear,” stolen in WWII, may be over 5,000-years-old
An ancient amber bear figurine, unearthed by miners in northern Poland, is the subject of renewed attention following a study ...
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'Richly decorated' antler from Stone Age Sweden was used as battle ax and fishing harpoon
A 7,500-year-old antler unearthed in Sweden had characteristic breakage patterns that suggest it was the handle for a battle ...
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Maha archaeology department confirms Stone Age tools at Bhatala & Mowad, raises alarm over illegal mining
Nagpur: The Maharashtra department of archaeology and museums unearthed stone ... Age spanning 2 million years and around 10,000 BCE), holding remnants of a time when early humans shaped stone ...
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Słupcio: A 6,000-year-old amber 'gummy bear' that may have been a Stone Age amulet
The figurine is 4 inches (10.2 centimeters) long and 1.65 inches (4.2 cm) tall and may date to Europe's Mesolithic period (12,000 ... archaeologists have found Stone Age sites with artifacts, such as ...
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Słupcio: A 6,000-year-old amber 'gummy bear' that may have been a Stone Age amulet
The figurine is 4 inches (10.2 centimeters) long and 1.65 inches (4.2 cm) tall and may date to Europe's Mesolithic ... have found Stone Age sites with artifacts, such as pottery, tools and weapons ...
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This Gruesome Stone Age Burial Site In Sweden Has Researchers Baffled
What the team discovered was a large and perplexing burial site from the Mesolithic period ... demonstrate that the head trauma wasn’t the thing that killed these stone age people. Though the ...
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Stone Age Humans Were Mastering the Seas 8,500 Years Ago- New Evidence Proves
New archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that prehistoric hunter-gatherers were far more capable oflong-distance sea travel than previously believed. These findings are reshaping our ...
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Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20,000 ...
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Groundbreaking research shows Maltese prehistory begins 1,000 years earlier, before first farmers
She added that this Mesolithic period is the final stage of hunter-gatherer prehistory, who were able to survive the last Ice Age. They used tools made of local limestone and were able to exploit ...
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Stone-age hunters crossed the Mediterranean, study finds
Excavations at a cave on the island of Malta have uncovered stone tools, cooking site and animal skeletons from 8,500 years ago — 1,000 years before the first farmers arrived on the island ...