lithic assemblage

Current Archaeology
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The First Stones: Penywyrlod, Gwernvale, and the Black Mountains Neolithic long cairns of south-east Wales

REVIEW BY GEORGE NASH The two Cotswold-Severn Neolithic burial-ritual monuments of Penywyrlod and Gwernvale occupy the western hinterlands of the Black Mountains in Breconshire, Wales. Both monuments are only part of a handful of Neolithic burial-ritual monuments in Wales to…

Above Excavations at Powars II, in Wyoming, have revealed that it is the site of America’s earliest known ochre mine. right Archaeologists uncovered a wealth of material from the site, including many stone, bone, and antler tools and projectile points.

World Archaeology
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America’s oldest ochre mine identified

Artefacts made of non-local materials indicate that the quarry may have been the source of much of the ochre found across the American midcontinent