Archeologists, for example, found what has now been confirmed to be the oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces ever discovered at a dig site in Ukraine. The dig site, called Medzhibozh A, is located in ...
Beginning with the first accession of Paleolithic collections in 1869, the Smithsonian Institution and its scientific staff have shown great interest in pursuing research, education, and exhibition of ...
Archaeologists found a 30,000-year-old ancient toolkit in Czech Republic. The tools reveal hunting, recycling, and survival ...
Most of the time, the past survives as debris scattered across millennia—animal bones here, a broken spear tip there, the ...
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A study in controversy -- Setting the stage -- Establishing the American Paleolithic, 1872-1881 -- The American Paleolithic comes of age, 1882-1889 -- The great Paleolithic war, 1890-1897 -- ...
However, those remains were younger, from the early Bronze Age about 4,600 to 4,100 years old, and unrelated to the hundreds of newly identified older bones discovered in subsequent excavations, ...