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See a researcher making an Oldowan flint flake from obsidian through a technique known as knapping
A researcher shapes obsidian through a technique known as knapping, which was used...
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Images

La Roche aux Fées
Interior of La Roche aux Fées, megalithic gallery grave, Neolithic Period, constructed...
D. Lesec/Ziolo
Uniface blade and three end scrapers
Stone tool flaked on one surface only, known as a uniface blade, and three end scrapers.
Courtesy, Robert R. Converse, the Archaeological Soceity of Ohio
Le Moustier
Excavation of Le Moustier cave, southwestern France.
V. Mourre
Aurignacian-Gravettian sculpture
Stylized “Venus” figurines carved in ivory, Aurignacian-Gravettian (c. 24,800
Courtesy of the Czechoslovak News Agency, Prague
Magdalenian cave painting of a bison
Magdalenian cave painting of a bison, Altamira, Spain.
A. Held/J.P. Ziolo, Paris
La Roche aux Fées
Exterior of La Roche aux Fées, megalithic gallery grave of the Neolithic Period,...
D. Lesec/Ziolo
Skara Brae
Excavations at Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
Dr. John F. Burka
Carved entrance stone
Newgrange, County Meath, Ireleand: Carved entrance stone to a Neolithic chamber tomb...
Courtesy of M.J. O'Kelly
Female figurine in the form of a jar
Clay jar in the shape of a female figurine, Neolithic Period, c. 3000 bce,...
Holle Bildarchiv, Baden-Baden
Zhoukoudian
The Zhoukoudian archaeological site, near Beijing.
Mutt
Çatalhüyük
Excavations at Çatalhüyük, Turkey.
Ziggurat
Dholavira water reservoir
A water reservoir at Dholavira site: Ruins from the ancient Harappan civilization,...
© Rama's Arrow
Jar from China
Earthenware two-handled jar from the Machang phase, Majiayao (or Gansu Yangshao)...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1992 (accession no. 1992.165.8); www.metmuseum.org
Pottery from the Jōmon period
Jōmon earthenware vessel, Japan, c. 10,500–300 bce;...
Photograph by mochichick. Honolulu Academy of Arts, gift of Kenneth G. Kingrey, in memory of Miss Alyce Hoogs, 1976 (4434.1)
Clovis point
Stone tool called Clovis point made of chert, 11500-9000 bce...
Daderot
Mississippian culture: Ocmulgee National Monument
Reconstructed earth lodge at Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia, U.S., the site...
Ahoerstemeier