Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10 天
A 65,000-Year-Old Hearth Reveals Evidence That Neanderthals Produced Tar for Stone Tools in ...
While Neanderthals have been found to create glue-like substances with other materials, this finding, if confirmed, would be ...
La Brújula Verde25 天
The Clacton Spear is the Oldest Known Wooden Tool
Samuel Hazzledine Warren, an amateur prehistorian who had been searching for simple stone tools in ... desiccation over the first few decades of storage reduced it to 36.7 centimeters in length by 37 ...
PBS6 年
Stone Age Toolkit
spear tips, drills, and other tools. This artifact was used for scraping fur from animal hides. For European and American Stone Age peoples, end scrapers served as heavy- duty scraping tools that ...
IFLScience on MSN3 个月
First Ever 50,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Bone Spear Point Shows They Were "Flexible" Crafters
They were usually minimally modified tools and have been associated with activities based on the stone (lithic ... fractures ...
Discover Magazine on MSN3 个月
Instead of Thrown, Spears Were Planted in the Ground to Kill a Charging Mammoth
Imagine being charged by a woolly mammoth. You hold a wooden spear with a razor-sharp stone tip. Do you hurl it at the 10,000 ...