Saturday, 14 July 2012

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Stone Age tools uncovered in Yemen point to humans leaving Africa and inhabiting Arabia perhaps as far back as 63,000 years ago, according ...
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012

NPL analyses surface wear on stone tools

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Innovative research by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Bradford used laser microscopes to explore how stone to...
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Monday, 12 March 2012

New find of Palaeolithic tools in India

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In an 'incredibly significant find', archaeologists have discovered prehistoric remains at a river bank in Chhattisgarh’s Sarguja ...
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Stone Age Europeans discovered America

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New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-...
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Friday, 3 February 2012

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Dr. Douglas Bamforth will speak about the Mahaffy Cache, a collection of 83 artifacts discovered in 2008 beneath Patrick Mahaffy's fro...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Archaeological report on palaeolithic vessel found on Mount Ararat

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Harvard University educated archaeologist and director of the Paleontological Research Corporation, Dr. Joel Klenck, surveyed the site of an...
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Mining operations threaten Zimbabwe's stone age archaeology

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These mining operations are a threat not only to Zimbabwe’s wildlife but also to its cultural and archeological resources. This mine between...
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Sunday, 11 December 2011

Neolithic site discovered in Staffordshire

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Experts believe they have found evidence of a 4,000-year-old Stone Age camp in the Midlands - thanks to a dog walker. Roger Hall discovered ...
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Thursday, 1 December 2011

Implements found in Arabian desert change ideas on "Out of Africa"

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Newly discovered stone artifacts in the Arabian desert suggest humans left Africa traveling inland, not along the coasts, as long thought ac...
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Thursday, 10 November 2011

Treasure trove of Palaeolithic tools unearthed in India

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A team of scientists largely from the Anthropological Survey of India has unearthed a trove of Stone Age tools from caves  that offer eviden...
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Saturday, 15 October 2011

Thousands of stone age tools found in China

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Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of stone implements dating back about 40,000 to 70,000 years in north China's Inner Mongolia Aut...
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Saturday, 3 September 2011

Oldest hand axes found in Kenya

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Acheulian flint hand axes unearthed at Kenya’s Kokiselei site date to 1.76 million years ago, slightly older than previous finds, say geolog...
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Friday, 26 August 2011

Interbreeding with Neanderthals boosted modern human immune system

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A new study, published in Science, says that humans interbreeding with Neanderthals could have boosted the modern human immune system. M...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

Stone Age people were tunnellers claims German scientist

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Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient supe...
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Sunday, 19 June 2011

Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? 11,000 years old?

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German archaeologist, Klaus Schmidt, has excavated a massive prehistoric structure in Turkey that may be 11,000 years old and could be the w...
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Friday, 17 June 2011

Toolmaking humans may have evolved earlier than thought

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According to an article in Scientific American , Reid Ferring, an anthropologist at the University of North Texas in Denton, and his colleag...
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Saturday, 7 May 2011

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Archaeologists have found what they say is the earliest evidence of Neanderthals living in Britain. Two pieces of flint unearthed at motorwa...
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Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Humans made tools 3.4 million years ago says Nature

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Researchers have found evidence that hominins - early human ancestors - used stone tools to cleave meat from animal bones more than 3.2 mill...
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Stone age tools from India are up to 1.5 million years old

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Archaeologists have discovered India`s oldest stone-age tools, up to 1.5 million years old, at a pre-historic site near Chennai, southern In...
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Sunday, 13 March 2011

World's oldest calendar?

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The world's first calendar may be an eagle bone with rows of 14 or 15 notches made 30,000 years ago and found at Le Placard on the Dordo...
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Friday, 11 March 2011

The First Farmers: Older Than You Think

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A fascinating and informative article by by John Koster relates several interesting episodes from the early study and discovery of Neolithic...
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Saturday, 5 March 2011

Early stone tools in California

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A new study in the Journal Science reports that scores of stemmed projectile points and crescents found on California’s Channel Islands sugg...
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Thursday, 4 November 2010

Stone age tools required greater brain power claims study

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I'm filing this story in my 'dodgy dossier' drawer along with aromatherapy-crystal-dowsing and Alastair Campbell's Iraq-WMD ...
Monday, 1 November 2010

UK's oldest home shows evidence of carpentry

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A team of archaeologists from the Universities of Manchester and York have reported that a home excavated in Yorkshire dates to at least 8,5...
Sunday, 31 October 2010

Stone age people painted their homes

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Mesolithic people 5,000 years ago brightened up their Stone Age homes by painting the insides, according to new archaeological evidence. The...
Saturday, 30 October 2010

Pressure flaking from Africa 75,000 years ago

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Pressure flaking originated not in Europe, but in Africa some 75,000 years ago in the Palaelithic period.  That is the finding of new resear...
Friday, 22 October 2010

Stone tools prove humans emerged early from Africa

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An Oxford research team has reported new findings of stone age tools that suggest humans came "out of Africa" by land earlier than...

BBC's History of the World in 100 objects

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Like many others, I have been fascinated and inspired by the BBC's History of the World in 100 objects, produced in partnership with the...

New interpretation of Sweden in the Stone Age

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The Falbygden area of central Västergötland in southwestern Sweden is home to one of northern Europe's greatest concentrations of megali...
Thursday, 21 October 2010

Stone age people ground and ate flour 20,000 years before farming began

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Humans in the palaeolithic period ground and ate flour 20,000 years before farming began according to new investigations. Flour residues rec...
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Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Did Neanderthals make jewellery?

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A new study by Oxford University's carbon dating lab has cast doubt on the idea that Neanderthal humans may have made jewellery.  The st...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010

North African stone age tools 40,000 years earlier than thought

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The "Aterian" stone tool technology and cultural group was originally thought to date to the period from 40,000 to 20,000 years be...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Ancient stone from Olduvai

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Inspired by the BBC programme "A history of the world in 100 objects"  Martin Budden visited the British Museum. He was particular...
Monday, 11 October 2010

Stone age tools on show in Massachusetts Sunday 17th October

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People in the Massachusetts town of Ashland, between Boston and Worcester, will be able to see stone age tools and weapons at first hand thi...
Thursday, 7 October 2010

Neanderthals were compassionate

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According to new research at York University, Neanderthals were compassionate people. The team's findings showed that the injured and in...
Friday, 17 September 2010

Humans used fire to heat treat tools 72,000 years ago

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Stone age humans used fire to heat treat rocks and make them more suitable for toolmaking at least 72,000 years ago, acoording to new resear...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Early stone age people in Britain almost 1 million ago

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According to an article in tomorrow's Nature magazine, new evidence suggests humans visited Britain even earlier than previously thought...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Australian archaeologists discover 40,000 year old implements

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Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world's southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tr...
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Sunday, 21 February 2010

New National Geographic coverage of Crete hand axes

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National Geographic has published some further coverage on the amazing find of palaeolithic hand axes on the island of Crete - suggesting th...
Thursday, 18 February 2010

Stone Age Artefacts on Crete are evidence for early marine exploration

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The New York Times has reported a fascinating discovery on the Island of Crete. Researchers have found Acheulian culture palaeolithic hand a...
Wednesday, 13 January 2010

An extraordinary 'Stone Age' modern man

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I've recently learned the most extraordinary story about an American indian named "Ishi", the last of his tribe, who came out ...
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Sunday, 20 December 2009

Pot Boilers

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Occasionally when you are walking through a field, you come across flints that have been in a fire - they have a characteristic light blue-g...
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Saturday, 19 December 2009

My latest find - a Neolithic arrowhead

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In the parts of Hampshire and West Sussex that I visit most often, I usually find Mesolithic flints - lots of them!  Rarely, I find Paleolit...
Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Those dreadful Stone Age people

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You know those Stone Age people we keep hearing about? The really thick ones whose language is a series of grunts, and who carry a club with...
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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Britain's Drowned World - Time Team Special

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Did you catch the truly fabulous Time Team Special "Britain's Drowned World" on Channel 4 at the weekend?  Don't worry if ...
Wednesday, 18 November 2009

A tricky question of conservation ethics

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I've often had the good luck to find discarded flint cores when field walking and have quite a collection but I've only very, very r...
Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Is it just me?

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Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that the general dumbing-down has affected museums as much as anywhere? Beautiful Victorian buildin...
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Monday, 16 November 2009

A great Victorian reference book republished

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One of the best reference books for stone tools is that great work, Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, by Sir John Evans published i...
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