After a woman died and was likely dismembered, her skull went on a “long and bumpy ride.” Source: https://www.livescience.com/rollaway-neolithic-skull.html
Tag: Stone Age
Stonehenge was built with bits of an older Welsh Stone Age monument
A few centuries before the earliest standing stones were placed at Stonehenge, they may have stood in a circle 280 kilometres away in Wales, the remains of which have just been identified Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2267537-stonehenge-was-built-with-bits-of-an-older-welsh-stone-age-monument/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Weapons carved from human bone come from drowned land bridge between UK and Europe
It’s a mystery why hunter-gatherers from the Stone Age crafted weapons from human bone. Source: https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-weapons-human-bone.html
Stone Age Europeans used human bones to make arrowheads
Barbed bone points that washed up on the shores of Europe were used as arrowheads or spear tips, and some were made of human bones Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2262840-stone-age-europeans-used-human-bones-to-make-arrowheads/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The reason we love to gather around the TV lies in Stone Age embers
Watching TV and staring at flickering flames produce similar physiological effects, offering intriguing clues to the enduring power of entertainment – and the origins of sociability Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833133-100-the-reason-we-love-to-gather-around-the-tv-lies-in-stone-age-embers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stone Age humans chose to voyage to Japanese islands over the horizon
After tracking buoys drifting in the oceans, archaeologists argue that an epic Stone Age voyage from Taiwan to Japanese islands likely occurred deliberately Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2261813-stone-age-humans-chose-to-voyage-to-japanese-islands-over-the-horizon/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Climate change has revealed a huge haul of ancient arrows in Norway
An extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch on a Norwegian mountainside in recent years because of climate change Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2260700-climate-change-has-revealed-a-huge-haul-of-ancient-arrows-in-norway/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stone Age people in Ireland had dark skin and were lactose-intolerant
Bone fragments from a mountain chamber in Ireland belonged to Stone Age people, and genetic analysis has revealed they had moderately dark skin and couldn’t digest raw milk Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2256812-stone-age-people-in-ireland-had-dark-skin-and-were-lactose-intolerant/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stone Age dog may have been buried with its master
After the dog’s burial, rising sea levels flooded the region. Source: https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-dog-burial.html
Stone Age people were cremating their dead about 9000 years ago
A 9000-year-old cremation in Israel may help identify when in prehistory people began changing their burial practices and perhaps their religious beliefs too Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251443-stone-age-people-were-cremating-their-dead-about-9000-years-ago/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…