Early man

Experts have uncovered several hundreds of basic sounds from the language first spoken in the Stone Age which archaeologists have dubbed proto-Indo-European, or IE.

Flintknapping; ok so it's not specific to boyscouts, but I still think it's useful knowledge for boyscouts to know.

DNA from ancient fossils in southern China has revealed that Native Americans may have roots in East Asia.

Yes ladies and gents, researchers have produced the whole genome sequence of the 3 billion "letters" (nucleotides) in the Neanderthalian genome, and the

Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a very different place. The northern part of the world was covered by thick sheets of ice; the animals were far larger than any we have ever seen, and they were covered in long wooly hair that afforded them...

Have students try these activities to expand their knowledge and interest in World’s Early People. Language Arts Life was very different for early Homo sapiens than it is for us today. Have students write short stories or poems that describe and characterize the experiences of early humans, from hunting and gathering to playing and interacting

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70,000 years ago. Palaeolithic Cave Settlement of Neanderthal Man, Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire. https://museum.wales/articles/2007-08-02/Re-creating-life-in-early-Wales/

Scientists at Leiden University and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands say manganese dioxide rocks found at a Neanderthal site in France may have been used help light fires.

An impression of a Neanderthal man

Neanderthal

Prehistoric art spans from 2 million years ago to around 1500 BCE and is divided into three periods: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic. During the Paleolithic period, nomadic hunter-gatherers lived in caves and created stone tools and rock carvings. The Mesolithic saw the gradual domestication of plants and animals and the formation of settled communities. In the Neolithic, people lived in villages, cultivated crops, and developed pottery, weaving, and early civilizations. Significant…

Prehistoric man went HOUSE hunting too: Ancestors sought homes ...

A new study suggests that humans, not climate change, were the primary cause of extinction of the huge and astonishing creatures that roamed Australia 45,000 years ago.

We do not, as previously thought, have a little bit of Neanderthal in us, scientists have revealed.

Some modern humans carry immune genes that originated in Neanderthals and a related species. But these genes may have come at a price