Minutes to make, but last thousands upon thousands of years. Palaeolithic handaxes were the tools of humans who were starting to manipulate the materials in the world around them in more complex ways from just under 2 million years ago to around 50,000 years ago.

🙄 हिंदू, मुस्लिम, सिख, ईसाई, पारसी, यहूदी

क्या कोई बता सकता है ये कौनसे धर्म के लोग थे

#Palaeolithic_Age

Lovely Field Work (Palaeolithic)
Zagros mountain
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#FindsFriday Fancy yourself to be good at puzzles?🧩Refitting an upper Palaeolithic flint core is pretty challenging… these photos show how all of the pieces fit together – can you spot the individual flakes?

1/ Mohammad Javad Shoaee, has written some great articles for his #PhD – of interest to those who are jazzed about the #Shanidar findings. His first article was a comprehensive overview about the #Palaeolithic of the Iranian plateau and the #Zagros . sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Colourful lithics from open-air Palaeolithic sites in the Gobi-Altai region (🇲🇳) #FlintFriday
Over 30,000 have been found, suggesting hominins occupied the area for several hundred thousand years.

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It's the International Day of the Midwife today!

Did you know?
- Over 2,000 babies are born each year in Portsmouth 👶
- The practice of midwifery can be traced back to the palaeolithic era (40,000 B.C.)
- Midwifery was first formally recognised in the UK in 1902

Scott Galloway, NYU Professor, on how the US is destroying young people’s future:

The US is attaching the young generation’s emotional wellbeing by “taking advantage of […] Palaeolithic instincts and God-like technology”

“This all adds up to a bunch of graphs all headed up…

Prehistoric DNA being dug up to see if it can help modern-day crops cope with climate change

Researchers from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh are analyzing microbes from the palaeolithic period to see if prehistoric plant DNA can assist current crops against climate change.…

Simon Hill MSc, BSc (Hons) Did anyone actually read the article? This is about people shifting from meat to plants in the few thousand years before the palaeolithic. They studied the transition period after the extinction of mega fauna. Their health got worse and half of their diet was still meat.

Roses of Dolní Věstonice, south Moravia. A unique and important Upper Palaeolithic archeological site where the famous Venus figure was also found. Wishing you a beautiful day. 🍀🎶🌸

What function(s) for Palaeolithic polyhedrons, spheroids and bolas? Cases from France and North Africa rdcu.be/dGYKH

Hello friends!👋This week, we have returned to the sites of Domingo García (Segovia) and Siega Verde (Salamanca)😍to continue our research on Palaeolithic art and engraving traceology through the useof near object photogrammetry📸 Siega Verde Junta de Castilla y León Universidad de Salamanca

PaleoBIRD IS GO!! The first samples from Sefunim Cave are hitting the EDTA today. Lets see what the stable isotope values can tell us about the pigeons of square G49! #soexcited #heyholetsgo #stableisotopes #archaeology #palaeolithic #thepaleobirdproject

Me a few years ago at the Palaeolithic site of Creswell Crags in Nottinghamshire..

I watched this - I give is a 5 out of 10.
Neanderthals and Humans were Palaeolithic not Neolithic - and they showed a close up of an animal bone cut with a Band saw in a butcher shop.
tut tut
I am fascinated by Neanderthals - disappointed

youtube.com/watch?v=b5YtgL…

In 1979, the University of Sydney joined the College of Wooster in their excavation of Pella, a settlement dating back to Lower Palaeolithic times. This important site has long been a subject of intense scholarship. Read more: ow.ly/HgCl50RlS9r

#publication A geoarchaeological review of Balzi Rossi, Italy: A crossroad of Palaeolithic populations
#scientifique #scientifique #science #recherche #science s #information #Pleistocene
#Palaeolithic
#Mousterian
#Gravettian
#Geoarchaeology
#Sealevel
#Chronology