Hundreds of distinctive flint objects from a Stone Age village in Jordan seem to have been a form of symbolic communication – perhaps even figurines of people Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2248126-mysterious-stone-age-flint-artefacts-may-be-crude-sculptures-of-humans/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: Stone Age
Stone Age man, whose skull was found on a spike, gets facial recreation (photos)
Here’s how a forensic artist recreated the likeness of a Stone Age man whose skull was found on a spike. Source: https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-man-facial-reconstruction-photos.html
Stone Age ruling elite in Ireland may have had incestuous marriages
DNA analysis of the 5000-year-old bones of a man buried in the Newgrange passage tomb in Ireland suggest the ruling elite at the time married within their family like some ancient Egyptian rulers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246227-stone-age-ruling-elite-in-ireland-may-have-had-incestuous-marriages/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
‘Bonehenge’: Stone Age structure of mammoth bones discovered in Russia
People living in Russia about 20,000 years ago built a “bonehenge” – a circular structure made of mammoth bones that could have been used to store food Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2237336-bonehenge-stone-age-structure-of-mammoth-bones-discovered-in-russia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Thousands of Denisovan tools reveal their Stone Age technologies
A cache of Denisovan tools shows how these extinct humans moved from using sharp stone flakes 150,000 years ago to stone blades and chisels around 60,000 years ago Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235308-thousands-of-denisovan-tools-reveal-their-stone-age-technologies/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stone Age replica raft almost ready to repeat epic prehistoric voyage
Archaeologists want to know how humans reached Australia 65,000 years ago – so they have built a raft using Stone Age tools and are about to repeat the voyage Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232327-stone-age-replica-raft-almost-ready-to-repeat-epic-prehistoric-voyage/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The epic ocean journey that took Stone Age people to Australia
Some 65,000 years ago, early humans washed up on the lost continent of Sahul, which contained Australia. Now clues hint it was no accident but rather the first great maritime expedition Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532660-600-the-epic-ocean-journey-that-took-stone-age-people-to-australia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Stone Age artists were obsessed with horses and we don’t know why
Stone Age artists loved drawing horses. One possible explanation is that this was because they believed horses were the most important of all the animals Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2223567-stone-age-artists-were-obsessed-with-horses-and-we-dont-know-why/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The World’s Oldest Pearl Was Just Discovered on an Island in the Persian Gulf
The pearl dates back 8,000 years to the Neolithic period — the last stage of the Stone Age Source: https://www.livescience.com/worlds-oldest-pearl-discovered-marawah-island.html
Plastic pollution has entered fossil record, says study
A new study has found that plastic pollution is being deposited into the fossil record, with deposits increasing exponentially since 1945. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/plastic-pollution-fossil-record…