https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z en-us 2023-02-16 15:07:33 UTC 2025-11-04 20:20:43 UTC hello@padlet.com mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485117030 Comes from an early human campsite in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. With the help of another hammer-like-object, flakes are knocked off both sides of a basalt pebble to form a sharp edge. It was used to chop branches off trees, to cut meat off large animals, and to smash bones for marrow fat. The flakes from the stone were also often used as knives for smaller tasks.]]> 2023-02-16 15:12:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485117030 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485144282 They were still in use about 500,000 years ago, their manufacture and use spread all throughout Africa, south Asia, the Middle East, Europe where they were still being made about 40,000 years ago. They were made of stone and many of these manmade axes had a teardrop or pear shape. They were used for a variety of tasks, some of them include the skinning/butchering of an animal or working other materials like wood. ]]> 2023-02-16 15:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485144282 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485296208 A Magdalenian sculpture of two deer (female in front, male in back) swimming nose to tail. It was made from mammoth ivory and is now being conserved in the British Museum. It was found as two pieces but was then rejoined in 1905. They are thought to be swimming in illustration of the migration of the deer that would be taking place each autumn. ]]> 2023-02-16 17:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485296208 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485333262 Ancestral Indigenous people were making distinctive fluted projectile points known as "Clovis Points". They are easily reccognized because of their size, craftsmanship, and stones the toolmakers chose for them.]]> 2023-02-16 17:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2485333262 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2486307181 The pestle was carved from stone and found in Aikora River, Papua New Guinea. Around 10,000 years ago, humans started moving away from hunting and started focusing more on learning how to grow crops. That meant new tools had to be invented, for both farming and food storage/preparation. The long neck of the pestle was probably too delicate to be used regularly and its bird-like shape indicates that it might've been used for pounding food on special occasions. ]]> 2023-02-17 13:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2486307181 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2486340944 A Natufian sculpture made from stone that was found in one of the Ain Sakhri caves near Bethlehem. It is said to be one of the oldest known representations of two people engaging in sexual intercourse. ]]> 2023-02-17 13:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2486340944 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2486359167 A small ceramic sculpture that dates from the Predynastic Naqada l period in Ancient Egypt. It is one of several models found in graves at El-Amara in Egypt. It's believed that they were put in graves to provide its owner with food in the afterlife. Cow were known as a source of life, and sometimes, whole cows were also buried with people. ]]> 2023-02-17 14:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2486359167 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2491173614 A youthful maize God is presented in the sculpture because of the figures "tonsured", partially-shaven haircut. It was most likely carved from two different blocks of limestone, one for the head, one for the torso. It is believed that it represents the agricultural cycle and is associated with abundance and prosperity. ]]> 2023-02-22 13:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2491173614 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2491189501 Jōmon pottery is a type of ancient earthenware pottery which was made during the Jōmon period in Japan, and were used for cooking and storage. They are among the oldest examples of pottery in the world. First discovered in 1877 at a site known as the ōmari shell-mound near Tokyo. ]]> 2023-02-22 13:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2491189501 mgreenwa2507 https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2491203885 Was found in Abydos Egypt. Made out of ivory, the sandals incised on the back indicate that it was originally attached to a pair of sandal belonging to Den, the fifth King of the First Dynasty.]]> 2023-02-22 14:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mgreenwa2507/x7tmoiiu2xupac7z/wish/2491203885