Stone age

'Man the Hunter' challenged: Stone Age graves show women buried with toolkits too

Published in PLOS One, the Stone Dead Project finds many grave tools were unused or broken, suggesting ritual offerings across the eastern Baltic at a site with 330 burials from 7,500–2,500 BC.

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Stone age tools.
Study reveals Stone Age methods of extracting animal teeth for jewelry. Illustration

Study reveals Stone Age methods of extracting animal teeth for jewelry

Wet cooking and pit steaming allowed for high extraction rates without damaging the teeth, also cooking the meat to make it edible.

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Nebet Tepe hill, Bulgaria.

Philip II's Legacy: Restored ancient city of Philippopolis at Nebet Tepe opens

The restored Nebet Tepe archaeological complex in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, was officially opened on March 20.

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Capuchin monkey with a rock.

Have Brazil's Capuchin monkeys reached the Stone Age?

Findings challenge the notion that early hominin stone tools were always intentionally produced.

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Stone Age artifacts from a land that sank 9,000 years ago were retrieved from the seabed

An average of 50 square miles of land were lost every year between 8000 BCE and 6500 BCE.

DECEMBER 27, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Archaeologists recently uncovered a trove of Stone Age artifacts on the seafloor of the North Sea. Cromer, Norfolk.