Posts Tagged: Paleolithic
Stone Age people may have battled against a zombie apocalypse | MNN – Mother Nature Network
But heres the creepy thing: many of the 10,000-year-old skulls appear to have been separated from their spines long after their bodies had already begun to decompose. Why would this skull-smashing ritual be performed so long after individuals had died? Did they only pose a threat to the living long after their original burial and death?
via Stone Age people may have battled against a zombie apocalypse | MNN – Mother Nature Network.
Stone Age painting kits found in cave | Science | The Guardian
The oldest known painting kits, used 100,000 years ago in the stone age, have been unearthed in a cave in South Africa.
Two sets of implements for preparing red and yellow ochres to decorate animal skins, body parts or perhaps cave walls were excavated at the Blombos cave on the Southern Cape near the Indian Ocean.
The stone and bone tools for crushing, mixing and applying the pigments were uncovered alongside the shells of giant sea snails that had been used as primitive mixing pots.
via Stone Age painting kits found in cave | Science | The Guardian.