Recycling - A 13,000 Year Old Tradition

Thursday, September 20, 2012 - 10:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Humans of the Upper Palaeolithic Age recycled and repurposed their stone artifacts to be put to other uses, according to a group of anthropologists after examining burnt artifacts found in the Molí del Salt site in Tarragona, Spain.How could they make that determination? Finding that stone tools during prehistoric times were recycled is not going to be apparent in archaeological records. read more

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