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An Experimental Investigation of Alternative Neolithic Harvesting Tools

Author(s)
Marc-Philipp H盲g 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 鉁,
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 ...

Rock Art Paint Explorations

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Organised by
Origins Centre & Wits Archaeology Department, Wits University
IFAS Recherche - MATOBART Project

Country

  • South Africa

MATOBART experimental archaeology workshop

-> Attendance is free, but RSVP is essential , before Wednesday, 09 October

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

Nesshenge: an Experimental Neolithic Henge with 15 Years of Exposure

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John Hill 1
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Our understanding of the planning processes involved before any Neolithic structure was physically built, from the moment when it was conceived in a person鈥檚 mind up to the point of its construction requires further investigation for which experimental archaeology can provide some direction...