People ate lots of foxes and wildcats 10,000 years ago
African wildcats seem to have been part of the human diet in the Levant 10,000 years agoNSP-RF/Alamy About 10,000 years ago, foxes and wildcats made up a notable part of…
Hunter-gatherers built a massive fish trap in Belize 4000 years ago
Satellite image showing channels that formed part of an ancient fishery, and Mayan sites nearbyGoogle Earth Archaeologists have discovered a massive network of ancient fisheries in Belize constructed by hunter-gatherers…
Neolithic engineers used scientific knowledge to build huge megalith
The interior of the monument in Spain known as the Menga dolmenMiguel Ángel Blanco de la Rubia Neolithic people seem to have understood sophisticated concepts in science, such as physics…
Stone tools in Filipino cave were used to make ropes 40,000 years ago
Inside the Tabon Caves on Palawan island in the PhilippinesHemis/Alamy Stock Photo The prehistoric inhabitants of the Philippines were able to make ropes and baskets from plant fibres almost 40,000…
Stone Age blueprints are the oldest architectural plans ever found
Aerial view of a desert kite from Jebel az-Zilliyat, Saudi ArabiaO. Barge, CNRS Architects drew up highly precise plans of vast stone-walled hunting traps 9000 years ago, representing the oldest…
