Sibidu Cave, South Africa. People lived here from about 77,000 BC until about 38,000 years ago. In the early years of human history, beginning with the earliest humans about two million years [...]
What is flint? Flint is a sedimentary rock made out of an igneous rock. What is flint made of? It's pretty complicated. Billions of years ago, silicon and oxygen atoms [...]
Jomon carving of a killer whale, ca. 3000 BC - Stone Age Japan The first people in Japan People probably first reached Japan from two directions around the same time. [...]
Ancient economy: a bone sickle - the flint teeth are missing now Trade or self-sufficiency? Even today experts don't really understand how economics works. Historians also disagree about how economics [...]
Sewing history: A Neanderthal stone awl Clothes before sewing When people first started to wear clothing, about 60,000 years ago, they didn't sew it at all: they just wrapped leather [...]
Early basalt choppers from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) The first stone tools Chimpanzees use stones to hammer on nuts and break them open, and they collect stones to throw at enemies. [...]
