Ancient hunters used spears like pikes to make mammoths ‘kill themselves,’ study finds
(The Hill) — Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and ...
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Mammoth Hunting Camp from 25,000 Years Ago with Bones, Tusks, and Ivory Tools, Found in Austria
A team of archaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute has discovered in Langmannersdorf, a town in Lower ...
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Stone Age Toolkit
About 40,000 years ago, near the dawn of the 30-millennia-long period known as the Upper Paleolithic, the first anatomically modern humans suddenly and mysteriously revolutionized their cultures ...
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A Paleolithic Camp at Nice
Construction work on the French Riviera has uncovered the remains of man's earliest-known construction work: huts put up by hunters who visited the shore of the Mediterranean some 300,000 years ago ...
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A Primer on Paleolithic Technology
Why study Paleolithic technology? What can old stone tools, ancient fire pits, and painted cave walls tell us about our evolutionary past? Humans occupy a rarified position in the modern world.