Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives ... used for stitching hides. Stone Age technology included delicate sewing needles made of bone with punched eyeholes.

Blade flakes were "pre-forms" that could be fashioned into knives ... used for stitching hides. Stone Age technology included delicate sewing needles made of bone with punched eyeholes.

A Roman bone pin near the skull led archaeologists to interpret the remains as belonging to a woman who lived between 69 and 210 AD during the Gallo-Roman era. But radiocarbon dating of the intact ...

A grindstone (as seen in Figure 8-9) is used to sharpen bone points ... are very small, but these stone tools are also very sharp. Can you guess how these small tools would have been used? Remember ...

Archaeologists have solved the mystery of an unusual skeleton discovered in Belgium, which was found to contain bones from ...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered an ancient iron pocketknife jabbed into the burial of an Iron Age woman. The cemetery ... burnt layer containing ashes and bone pieces. "When we dug down, we ...

MR. BURKITT'S “Old Stone Age”, a textbook for students, may for the purposes of a wider public be regarded as a progress report. Although it is a study of the period as a whole, and as such is ...

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past The mysterious origin of Stonehenge’s altar stone might have ...

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