Cave paintings from the Lascaux complex in France to Ubirr in Australia have one characteristic in common—they depict hunters and their prey. Very few of our Paleolithic ancestors seemed interested in doing still-life paintings ...
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Griffith University has played a key role in new research that shows hunter-gatherers used miniaturized stone tools and bone projectile points to consistently hunt a range of animals in the Sri Lankan rainforests over the ...
Archaeology
Oct 14, 2022
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Archaeologists working in Belize have found ancient Maya salt workers worked from home.
Archaeology
Oct 10, 2022
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During fieldwork aimed at documenting the stone tool use of a group of wild chimpanzees in the Taï Forest in Cote d'Ivoire in early 2022, the researchers identified and 3D-scanned a variety of stone tools used to crack different ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 20, 2022
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When Columbus landed in 1492, the Americas had been settled for tens of thousands of years. He wasn't the first person to discover the continent. Instead, his discovery was the last of many discoveries.
Archaeology
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Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed the titanic tusk of a prehistoric elephant near a kibbutz in southern Israel, a remnant of a behemoth once hunted by early people around half a million years ago.
Archaeology
Aug 31, 2022
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A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where the first European state flourished during the Bronze Age: the Minoan civilization.
Archaeology
Aug 23, 2022
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A new study into the multipurpose uses of boomerangs has highlighted how the hardwood objects were used to shape the edges of stone tools used by Australian Indigenous communities.
Archaeology
Aug 16, 2022
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Footprints laid down by Ice Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a US desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants.
Archaeology
Aug 11, 2022
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About 37,000 years ago, a mother mammoth and her calf met their end at the hands of human beings.
Archaeology
Aug 1, 2022
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