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Stone Age ‘megastructure’ under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Paleolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago

Archaeologists have identified what may be Europe’s oldest human-made megastructure, submerged 21 meters below the Baltic Sea in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. This structure—which has been named the Blinkerwall—is a continuous low wall made from over 1,500 granite stones that runs for almost a kilometer. The evidence suggests it was constructed by Paleolithic people

Clora Drews February 19, 2024

Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment

Credit: Maria Guagnin, Michael Petraglia, CC BY About 7,000 years ago, a small group of people sat around a fire, next to a small lake in what is now the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia. We found some of the tools they left behind—and on close inspection of the tools, we discovered these Stone

Tyisha Fetzer October 8, 2023

Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer

Credit: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology An international team of researchers has recovered DNA from the owner of a deer-tooth pendant that was buried inside a remote Siberian cave for tens of thousands of years. In research published in Nature, Elena Essel of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and colleagues…

Larisa Mcnaught May 7, 2023

Stone Age ‘megastructure’ under Baltic Sea sheds light on strategy used by Paleolithic hunters over 10,000 years ago

Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment

Who owned this Stone Age jewellery? New forensic tools offer an unprecedented answer

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