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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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Beyond Göbekli Tepe’s Giant Pillars, Archaeologists May Have Found 10,000-Year-Old Homes
Göbekli Tepe is known around the world for its giant T-shaped pillars and monumental buildings. But new excavations may have uncovered 10,000-year-old homes, offering a very different glimpse into the lives of the people who lived among its famous monuments. New excavations in a previously unexplored part of the Neolithic settlement in southeastern Türkiye have…
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Around 9,000-Year-Old Remains of a Pregnant Woman and Fetus Found in Sweden
Archaeologists working inside a cave on a small Baltic island have uncovered the remains of a young pregnant woman with the bones of her unborn child still preserved in close anatomical association with her body, offering an exceptionally rare glimpse into life and death in Stone Age Scandinavia. The discovery was made in the Suder…
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Stone Age Flint Dagger Found Beneath 18th-Century Swedish Cottage Raises “Thunderstone” Question
Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered a Stone Age flint dagger beneath the former site of Åbrostugan, an 18th-century cottage that once stood in Åbro village before being moved to the Trostorp local heritage farm. The unusual find raises the possibility that the prehistoric object was later reused as a protective “thunderstone,” a type of ancient…
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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…