Neolithic

An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Neolithic Harvesting Tools

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Marc-Philipp Häg 1
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Harvesting tools have seldom been found during excavations at Neolithic sites in North-Western Europe but cereal consumption was widely practiced in that region, as grain discovered in settlements showed. Several researchers have, over the last 50 years, highlighted this discrepancy between missing harvesting tools and the presence of cereal grains...

Does the Addition of Manganese Dioxide Aid in The Production of An Ember when Using Strike-A-Light Technology With Horse Hoof Fungus? A Potential Neanderthal Technology

Author(s)
Charlotte Clarke 1 ✉,
Peter Hommel 1,
James Utley 2,
Christopher Scott 1
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Recent archaeological and experimental work suggests that Neanderthals may have been purposefully gathering manganese dioxide to aid in their fire lighting. Given the evidence for complex Neanderthal pyro-technology, this appears to be a plausible hypothesis. In this paper, we add to the experimental testing of this hypothesis by ...

5th Experimental Archaeology Seminar on Hunting and Violence Tools in Prehistory

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Country
Spain

The study of hunting tools in prehistory is key to the archaeological research. Spears, thrusters, and other devices appear at different times, but using the bow, which has been documented since the Upper Paleolithic, represents a revolutionary technological achievement. Throughout prehistory, bows and arrows have been present with variations in the raw materials used, the