Stone Age 
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
9-12-18
Stone Age Markings May Be the Oldest Drawing Ever Discovered
The crosshatch symbol was made with a red ochre utensil more than 70,000 years ago.
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SOURCE: Science News
1-21-14
Stone Age harpoon found on Pacific island
A 35,000-year-old piece of carved bone has been found on Timor.
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SOURCE: The Independent
12-10-13
Revealed: how prehistoric 'des res' gave Stone Age Brits a perfect diet
25-site survey shows that early humans chose predominantly to live on islands in the flood plains of major rivers.
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SOURCE: Science News
6-12-13
Ancient Siberians may have rarely hunted mammoths
Contrary to their hunting reputation, Stone Age Siberians killed mammoths only every few years when they needed tusks for toolmaking, a new study finds.People living between roughly 33,500 and 31,500 years ago hunted the animals mainly for ivory, say paleontologist Pavel Nikolskiy and archaeologist Vladimir Pitulko of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Hunting could not have driven mammoths to extinction, the researchers report June 5 in the Journal of Archaeological Science.On frigid tundra with few trees, mammoth tusks substituted for wood as a raw material for tools, they propose. Siberian people ate mammoth meat after hunts, but food was not their primary goal....
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SOURCE: PastHorizons
03-09-13
Stonehenge may have been burial site for Stone Age elite, say archaeologists
Centuries before the first massive sarsen stone was hauled into place at Stonehenge, the world’s most famous prehistoric monument may have begun life as a giant burial ground, according to a theory disclosed on Saturday. More than 50,000 cremated bone fragments, of 63 individuals buried at Stonehenge, have been excavated and studied for the first time by a team led by archaeologist Professor Mike Parker Pearson, who has been working at the site and on nearby monuments for decades. He now believes the earliest burials long predate the monument in its current form....
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SOURCE: Fox News
2-13-13
Battered skulls reveal violence among stone-age women
Stone Age farmers lived through routine violence, and women weren't spared from its toll, a new study finds.The analysis discovered that up to 1 in 6 skulls exhumed in Scandinavia from the late Stone Age — between about 6,000 and 3,700 years ago — had nasty head injuries. And contrary to findings from mass gravesites of the period, women were equally likely to be victims of deadly blows, according to the study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology....
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SOURCE: SciDaily
2-17-13
Ancient Teeth Bacteria Record Disease
DNA preserved in calcified bacteria on the teeth of ancient human skeletons has shed light on the health consequences of the evolving diet and behaviour from the Stone Age to the modern day.The ancient genetic record reveals the negative changes in oral bacteria brought about by the dietary shifts as humans became farmers, and later with the introduction of food manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution....
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