by aera | Sep 28, 2014 | Blog, Mit Rahina Field School
By Dr. Giulio Lucarini, University of Cambridge, UK When I spoke for the first time with Ana Tavares about the food production research project I am currently carrying out in several regions of North Africa* and, in particular, about the analysis I am doing on...
by aera | Apr 18, 2011 | 2011 Field Season, Blog
Posted by Sabine Boos As everybody knows, people in ancient Egypt used stone to build their monuments and statues. What is much less known, however, is that a large number of their tools were made of stone and this holds true for the Predynastic period as well as for...
by aera | Sep 16, 2006 | Articles, News
By Tim Stevens, Lithics Analyst, and Brian V. Hunt Many people think of stone tools as strictly Stone Age technology. The fact that people used chert and other stone for tools is what defines prehistory as the Stone Age. This has led to an under-appreciation of the...
