Archaeologists Sifted Through an Ancient Lakebed—And Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Tools
A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle ...
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The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain
FOR some years past it has been felt by students of anthropology that the limits of their science were being pushed so far in every direction by various enthusiastic workers in almost every ...
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Stone Age Toolkit
This artifact was used to provide stone blades. Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by ... who used such weapons to devastating ...
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Researchers rewrite history of woodworking using stone age tools
The researchers’ criteria can help answer this question by comparing the traces on the ancient stone edges with those on the replica tools ... boats, and weapons. In Japan, where similar ...
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‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
Iraq has a rich historical legacy, but it often goes unnoticed due to conflicts. Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in ...
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KS2 History / PSHE and Social Studies: Discovering Stone Age tools made of flint
There was, at that time, no knowledge of metal or metal-working so survival depended on making these tools and weapons. This clip is from the series Ancient Voices. Could be used to explore Stone ...