Ring of ancient, massive shafts found near Stonehenge
These structures are thousands of years old and the reasons why they were built are still poorly understood.
Tag: stone
Pumice: the floaty, foamy, fragile stone and its uses
Its name shares a root with the Latin word 'spumam' ('foam').
Oxen, the ‘robots of the late Neolithic’ jump-started economic inequality
The findings are still very relevant today.
Earliest evidence of milk consumption comes from Stone Age Britain
I don't know how I could live without cheese.
In the stone-age people recycled flint on purpose to produce precision blades
Second-hand flint, ironically, was more of a precision implement that fresh flint.
Kidney stones form like any rock, may hold day-by-day history of your body’s health
We're all Stonebenders in our kidneys!
Around 4,500 years ago, Vietnamese stone-age traders traveled hundreds of kilometers to sell their wares
Unsurprisingly, they traded a lot of stone.
Treasure trove of stone tools found in Puget Sound
Is there anything you can't buy in today's shopping malls? The list must be pretty short already, but now we ...
How to build Beijng’s Forbidden City with 100-tonne stone blocks tens of miles away
(c) Wiki Commons This "How to" may not be that relevant in modern times, but in ...