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Colorful Stone Found in a Polish Tobacco Field Is a Nearly 6,000-Year-Old Axe
A colorful stone uncovered while a couple were weeding tobacco in eastern Poland has been identified as a nearly 6,000-year-old Neolithic axe. Made from distinctive striped flint, the remarkably well-preserved tool may add to evidence that the surrounding region was more intensively occupied in prehistory than archaeologists once believed. Agnieszka and Krzysztof Obszański discovered the…
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Rare 9,000-Year-Old Stone Age Hammer Unearthed in Norway Reveals Ancient Settlement
Archaeologists in Eastern Norway have uncovered a rare 9,000-year-old shaft-hole club — essentially a Stone Age hammer — during excavations in Horten, a site that has turned out to be far richer than expected. What began as a small survey ahead of a bike path project has revealed the traces of a settlement, a house…