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08/19/2008
Tanzania: Prehistoric Weapons Factory (AllAfrica.com)
THE ISIMILA STONE AGE SITE in Tanzania provides fascinating insights into how ancient man developed the tools to master his environment.
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08/19/2008
ARCHAEOLOGY | Direct experience opens minds to ancient ways (The Columbus Dispatch)
One of the greatest challenges in archaeology is appreciating aspects of ancient lives that are no longer a part of modern experience.
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08/19/2008
Ice Age Ivory Carving Discovered (The Epoch Times)
A carving of a mastodon has been discovered in a Swabian Alpine cave.
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08/18/2008
Stone Age Graveyard Reveals Lifestyles Of A 'Green Sahara' - Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside (Medical News Today)
The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno, whose team first happened on the site during a dinosaur-hunting expedition.
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08/17/2008
Stone Age graveyard reveals "green Sahara" (Vietnam Net)
The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger, an international team of archaeologists led by University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno reported.
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08/17/2008
Stone Age Communities Emerge From Sahara's Sands (The Tampa Tribune)
When Paul C. Sereno went dinosaur hunting in the Sahara, his career took a sharp turn from paleontology to archaeology. The expedition found what has proved to be the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people, who lived there when the desert was green.
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08/16/2008
Artisans to demonstrate crafts and skills Aug. 23 (Rushville Republican)
Rain or shine, the Rush County Historical Society will host its annual Artisan’s Day from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Gowdy House Museum, 619 N. Perkins Street, Rushville.
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08/13/2008
Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition (Slashdot)
Hugh Pickens writes "For a long time, humans were pretty dumb, doing little but make 'the same very boring stone tools for almost 2 million years,' says Philipp Khaitovich of the Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai. Then, 150,000 years ago, our big brains suddenly got smart. We started innovating. We tried different materials. We started creating art and maybe even religion. ...
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08/16/2008
Ancient child's hand points to life in a 'green Sahara' some 10,000 years ago (Santa Fe New Mexican)
Photo: One of scientists’ more surprising discoveries in Africa’s Sahara desert was that of a young woman lying on her side, right, with two young children lying on their sides facing her, left, their fingers interlocked with hers.
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08/14/2008
In the Sahara, Stone Age Graves From Greener Days (New York Times)
The first complete report from the largest known graveyard of Stone Age people reveals 200 graves, some filled with ornaments and pottery.
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| Archaeological Guide to Chert Types of East-Central Illinois - Identification guide to the types of chert exploited by the prehistoric people of east-central Illinois. By Lenville J. Stelle and Thomas Duggan.ArchNet - Lithics - Categorized directory of annotated links.Arroweb1 - Photographs of a personal collection of stone tools from Arizona and Texas.Arrowhead Museum - This site is dedicated to showing small points from around the world. Image gallery.Artifacts From The Southeast - Skip Hutchison's collection of stone tools from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Includes brief descriptions of the artifacts.Digital Crabtree - Paper presenting a computer simulation of Folsom fluting. By Tony Baker.The Dirt Brothers - Collections of thousands of pictures of arrowheads and other lithics, mainly from Texas.Embeddedness of Lithic Technology - An article by Leland C. Bement that describes using stone tools to reconstruct Folsom mobility and subsistence practices on the Southern Plains.Finding Arrowheads - A basic guide to arrowhead hunting.FlintSource - Searchable database of samples of flint and other siliceous raw materials collected by Rengert Elburg and Paul van der Kroft in Central Europe. Search by location or type.Gunner Jim's Arrowheads - Pictures of a personal collection of arrowheads, spear points, and stone tools, found while surface artifact hunting in Middle and West Tennessee.Indie's Page O' Points - Collection of points from Texas.Lithic Casting Lab.Com - Sells casts and pictures of projectile points.Lithic Technology - A peer-reviewed journal concerned with dissemination knowledge about archaeological stone tools.Lithics Glossary - Definitions of terms commonly used in the study of lithic technology.The Lithics Site - Extensive listing of links to information and resources of interest to lithic analysts and other archaeologists, maintained by Hugh W. Jarvis, University at Buffalo.Michael's Lithic Studies - Group of research reports and links related to microwear analysis, flintknapping, raw material sourcing.Mike's Artifact Collection - Photographs of a personal collection of Native American artifacts.Neil's Texas Indian Artifacts - Arrowheads and Stone Age tools. Archaic flint knives, axes, and spear points.Oklahoma Stone Tools and Arrowheads - Photographs of arrowheads and other artifacts from Northeastern Oklahoma.Projectile Point Types: Neverending Draft Bibliography - Compiled by Michael Pfeiffer.Projectile Points and Methods of Dating - Introduction to the methods of dating projectile points using artifacts from Texas as examples.Southern Ontario Projectile Points - An illustrated typology with artifact descriptions presented by the London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society.Stone Age Reference Collection - A reference program containing information about the typology, technology and raw materials and of the Stone Age.Stone Artifacts of the North Carolina Piedmont - An amateur archaeologist's look at lithic artifacts found in the North Carolina Piedmont.Stone Tool Typology - Introduction to the classification of stone tools by form.Texas Arrowheads and Indian Artifacts - Photo gallery of arrowhead and artifact types found in Texas with information provided on lithic technology.Texas Points: Typology - Field guide with photographs and descriptions of many of the lithic types found in Texas.
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