Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
A team of archaeologists has made a breakthrough in Iraq’s Western Desert, where seven Paleolithic sites have been discovered comprising over 850 stone tools. Led by Ella Egberts from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), this research was undertaken in late…
A recent study published in PLOS ONE reveals that early humans living in the Ethiopian Highlands between 1.6 and 1 million years ago displayed remarkable cognitive and technological capabilities. By strategically selecting specific types of stone for toolmaking, these early…
Three years ago, a six-year-old boy named Ben from Shoreham, West Sussex, England, stumbled upon a shiny flint rock while playing on Shoreham Beach. Initially captivated by its unique appearance, Ben brought the rock home, where it was largely overlooked…
An international team of archaeologists working in the Qurh Plain of northwest Saudi Arabia has unearthed a colossal hand axe estimated to be over 200,000 years old. The find is made of fine-grained basalt and measures an impressive 51.3 cm…
Art and archaeology converge in an exciting discovery as researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Cambridge uncover the earliest artistic representation of an Acheulean handaxe. This historical revelation, found within the “Melun Diptych” painted by Jean Fouquet around 1455,…
Archaeologists from University College London (UCL) have unearthed “giant” prehistoric stone handaxes during excavations of an Ice Age site in Kent, England. The site, located above the Medway Valley, was revealed in advance of the development of the Maritime…
Scientists have unearthed a trove of about 600 obsidian hand-axes made more than 1.2 million years ago in Ethiopia by an unknown group of hominins, the family that includes modern humans and many extinct relatives. Obsidian is an igneous rock…
