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Newsletter subscription Sign up to receive our latest news and updates direct to your inbox Go. According to Barcelona University, the bow dates to between BC, and is in a remarkably good state of preservation. The date places the bow in the earliest phases of occupation at La Draga and provides archaeologists with a unique opportunity to study ancient technology. The La Draga excavation centers on a settlement that is one of the earliest farming communities north of the Iberian Peninsula. The Neolithic settlement is located in the eastern side of Lake Banyoles.
Covering about m2, the site stretches along about m of the lakefront and is about 80 m wide. The Neolithic beach is currently under the lake, making La Draga both a land based and underwater archaeological project. Scientists in Estonia, using infrared spectroscopy, have been able to identify the adhesive used to glue an early Mesolithic microlith to its wooden shaft as birch bark tar.
Their sample came from an excavation at Pulli and was found together with a lump of the same adhesive with teeth marks where it had been chewed. It has been found on a Neanderthal spear point, with a thumb print. Pieces of chewed birch bark tar with human teeth marks go back as far as 11, years.
Mike Richardson, who lives in Anchorage, Alaska, has experimented with making his own birch bark tar. At 85 degrees Fahrenheit, it is just a bit softer and can be molded in your hands. At degrees Fahrenheit, it is a medium stiff putty. At degrees Fahrenheit, birch bark tar is a softer sticky putty.
Birch bark tar boils at about degrees Fahrenheit. It is made from just birch bark heated in a oven with little air, much like charcoal. The birch bark oil, mostly betulum, will sweat out of the bark and run to the bottom of your oven. Why has our perception of the appearance of early hominids changed in recent decades? As it is impossible to know with any real precision the facial appearance and other bodily features of early human relatives, it is not surprising that there is a subjective element in restorations, especially facial restorations.
The result is a very wide range of 3D models and images, sometimes contradicting each other. At the extreme ends of the spectrum are restorations of the same species that are irreconcilable, at least visually. However, I have noticed that there does seem to be a general trend in such restorations. In the early days, at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, restorations tended to be decidedly primitive and ape-like.
Java man, Heidleberg man and Neanderthal man were generally depicted as being very crude and ape-like and were conceived of at least popularly as behaving in a primitive animal-like manner. This seems to have gradually changed over the past 50 years or so with early hominids becoming represented as more and more human-like in appearance and behaviour.
Remains of Homo Heidelbergensis found at the British Palaeolithic site at Boxgrove, for example, c, BCE have been restored to show a tall chap with a certain raffish charm and no trace of the ape at all.
Cave and Strauss, writing in the Quarterly Review of Biology observed that if he were given a bath, collar and tie, he would pass unnoticed in the New York subway.
In a few cases, modern restorations depart quite significantly from the known anatomical facts. But why exactly? What scientific evidence has been found, or what paradigm shift has occurred, that would account for this change?
The only new information that I can think of that might contribute to this changing perception is our better knowledge and understanding of lithic technology. When Java man was restored as ape-like, stone tools were widely regarded as crude artefacts, and evidence both of low intellect and lack of development. We now know that making, for example, Solutrean blades, Clovis points or microlith arrows required not only a very high level of manual dexterity but also considerable forethought and pre-planning.
English Heritage has unveiled its proposals for Stonehenge on its Website. They are far reaching and imaginative and look as though they will restore the site to a much more natural state, while at the same time improving access for visitors. They plan to get rid of the car park and put in a transit system like they use at The Eden Project from a new visitor centre 1.
The new visitor centre will have a large shop, cafe and exhibition area. It will have car and coach parks screened behind trees and the contours of the landscape. It comprises of a hockey puck-shaped stone with two separate sharpening surfaces; a coarse side for repairing heavy wear, and a fine side for regular sharpening.
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