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10 Interesting Facts About The Stone Age

1. The Stone Age is the longest time period in the human timeline... You could take all the following time periods (to the modern day)...

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4 Iconic Palaeolithic Tools You Thought You Knew...

In an attempt to avoid this becoming a multi-volume book series on Palaeolithic tool technology, I explore some of the iconic tools from...

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How Did Copper Mining Evolve in Bronze Age Britain?

From around the third millennium BC (5000 years ago), people in Iberia began exploiting sources of copper among other raw materials...

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What Materials Were Used In The Stone Age & Where Did They Come From?

WOOD A material that rarely survives from the earlier end of prehistory is wood. It could be argued that much of prehistory could be...

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A Guide to Some Of The Knappable Rocks Around The World

There are many different types of stone that can be used to make lithic tools, depending on where you are in the world. 'Lith' meaning...

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A Prehistoric Britain Timeline: Everything You Need To Know.

We begin our timeline of Prehistoric Britain with the start of the Palaeolithic period, defined by the earliest evidence we currently...

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Celebrating 10 Years of AncientCraft!

Ancient Craft has grown beyond anything I had originally imagined! Here's my top 10 highlights from the first 10 years...

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