The First Humans in Britain
These footprints are the oldest known outside of Africa and they were made by early humans that occupied an area in the north of...
Stone Age Sculpture or Sharpener?
The picturesque village of Sweikhuizen in the south of the Netherlands is well known for its Stone Age history. It is located on an old...
What's the Point? Part 2
Stone tools are virtually indestructible and remain preserved in the archeological record longer than any form of evidence. Often they...
Let There Be Light
For most of human evolutionary history our only source of light was the sun. The sun came up and it was light and after it went down it...
What's the Point?
Tanged 'Font-Robert' point with traces of resin used for hafting This tanged leaf shaped point (L=5cm, W=3cm) was found on the Wessex...
Core Reduction and Mobility
I recently came across an interesting paper by Hertell & Tallavaara discussing the relationship between hunter-gatherer mobility and core...
The First Peopling of the Meuse Valley
The earliest remains of human habitation in the Netherlands were discovered in the early 1980s in the loess-covered Belvédère quarry near...
Palaeolithic Trihedral Technology
The assemblage found near Midsomer Norton, described in the post on the “Early settlers of the Somer Valley” contains a large number of...
Microliths
After the Last Glacial Maximum stone tools became progressively smaller and smaller. It is thought that this microlithisation started in...
From Rifle to Kalashnikov
At the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (20,000 ya) global temperatures started to increase. During this climatic shift, known as the...
