Read more about the article Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study
Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the city of Leipzig, Germany, claimed that some accidentally produced stone fragments made by macaques resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artifacts. ( Lydia V. Luncz/Newsflash)
Animals

Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study

New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for…

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March 16, 2023
Read more about the article Jail Sentence For Teen Who Graffitied Stone Age Temple
Picture shows the Neolithic monument in Ggantija that an eighteen-year-old on a school trip engraved two letters on, in Malta, undated. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for four years and fined EUR 15,000 (GBP 13274). (Newsflash)
Crime

Jail Sentence For Teen Who Graffitied Stone Age Temple

A teenage high school student who graffitied a 5,000-year-old Stone Age fertility temple by scratching the initials 'B' and 'H' has been given a two-year jail sentence. Picture shows the Neolithic monument in Ggantija that an eighteen-year-old on a school trip engraved two letters on, in Malta, undated. He was…

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March 14, 2023
Read more about the article Steel Was Already Used In In Stone Age Europe 2,900 Years Ago, Says Study
Image shows geochemical analyses used by the researchers to show that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze Age feature complex engravings that could only have been done using tempered steel, undated photo. This was backed up by metallographic analyses of an iron chisel from the same period and region that showed the necessary carbon content to be proper steel. (Rafael Ferreiro Maehlmann/Newsflash)
History

Steel Was Already Used In In Stone Age Europe 2,900 Years Ago, Says Study

New research by German scientists has revealed that Europeans already used steel tools nearly 3,000 years ago. Image shows geochemical analyses used by the researchers to show that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze Age feature complex engravings that could only have been…

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March 12, 2023