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The discovery of submerged stone circles and Stone Age tools on the Isle of Skye reveals that humans occupied what is now northern Scotland about 11,000 years ago. The finding indicates that these ...
from the point when human ancestors began using stone tools until the time we invented metalworking. Archaeologists often break up this lengthy time span into three periods — the Paleolithic (3. ...
Archaeologists discover 20,000-year-old stone tools in South African caves, revealing Ice Age technological sophistication. (photo credit: Sara Watson) Archaeologists from the Field Museum ...
The site reveals a treasure trove of Lower Palaeolithic artifacts from the Acheulean culture, including stone tools crafted by Homo erectus. GURGAON: The discovery — confirmed by the former ...
An “extremely rare” 16,000-year-old canine skeleton from southern France offers evidence that Stone Age humans cared for their pets – although the animal was also probably killed by humans.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—Stone tools crafted by ancient humans between 24,000 and 12,000 years ago that were recovered from coastal South Africa's Robberg caves match contemporaneous styles found in ...
The enigmatic circles, each between 3 and 5m (10 and 16ft) in size, as well as stone tools found at the site, have been dated to around 11,500 – 11,000 years ago – an era known as the Late ...
It's located in a unique building known as the "Old Stone Church," a Craftsman-style structure with Gothic and Tudor-style details, built for First Presbyterian Church in 1912. Deputy Fire Marshal ...
REISTERSTOWN, Md. — Near a churchyard in Reisterstown, a road project revealed tools made out of chalcedony. It's a special stone favored by ancient people to make tools like stone points and scrapers ...
But Hardy and colleagues' discovery of numerous stone tools shaped into points, blades and scrapers in a style called Ahrensburgian — which was in use across north-central Europe during the Late ...
They were created by direct percussion using stone tools, such as hand-held hammerstones, on vertical, sloping, or horizontal rock surfaces.” Over the years, Moorthy has also completed several ...