Rice-cooking project – Stone Age China
Rice-cooking project: A bowl of brown rice In China, people started to farm and eat rice in the Stone Age, about 8000 BC. You probably eat a lot of rice too, but [...]
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Stone Age Chinese Art – Early China
Jar from Ban'po, 4800 BC The earliest form of art we know from China was pottery - clay pitchers and bowls starting about 5000 BC. Most of the best early [...]
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Stone Age Chinese architecture – Early China
Goddess Temple, Niuheliang People in China started to build houses instead of living in caves about 5000 BC. That was about five thousand years later than the first houses in Jericho, [...]
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What is an aurochs? Central Asian Environment
Cave painting of a herd of aurochs (about 14000 BC) When did the aurochs evolve? Around fifty million years ago, after the dinosaurs died, large mammals started to evolve from smaller mammals [...]
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Stone Tools in early Africa – African technology
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. [...]
