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A view looking up to the Windmill Way rockshelter with the archaeological excavation in progress. Lynley Wallis

Perfectly preserved rock art site reveals 1,700 years of Aboriginal string craft

New research details Aboriginal craftsmanship – along with accompanying wall art – at a remote site in the Cape York Peninsula.
Bone artefacts from various South African Stone Age archaeological sites have been interpreted as arrowheads. J. Bradfield (as published in Bradfield, J. & Choyke, A. 2016. Bone technology in Africa. In: H. Selin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, pp, 20-27. Springer).

New technology tells us which animal bones were used to make ancient tools

Species-level identification of bone tools has been undertaken for the first time in southern Africa.

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