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Diary of an Archaeologist Palaeolithic sites in the Vezere Valley Vezere Valley, France Tear your hair out all you historians, the Palaeolithic era lasted over 2 million years of human activity and they did not write so there are NO books where they recorded what they did! However they did leave painted scenes in caves and a range of stone tools. Archaeologists excavate these sites and research the evidence to learn how they did live. I begin my archaeologist's diary with the earliest dated site I worked on, a Middle Palaeolithic cave shelter site at Les Eyzies du Tayac, in the Vezere region. Palaeolithic is from the Greek for old - 'palaios', and stone – 'lithic'. It was  period when humans used their skills to knap a range of tools from hammers, scrapers, axes, borers and blades, from flint,  jasper   or churt stone. It is the longest extending period in human prehistory, stretching from the earliest types of hominids in the Lower Palaeolithi...

This is the first post that will hopefully be followed by a few more by of archaeologist expert- Polly Thompson. Polly has previously written ' Funeral Rites - Viking Burial ' for us, and as that proved to be rather popular here w e are with some more. We hope you enjoy! ~ Mae and Esther Introduction: Our knowledge of history is gathered from many different sources. For instance: written records recorded events and oral traditions, embedded in the names of places and people. Our knowledge of prehistory, before written records are gained, come from visible remains such as cave art, portable objects, stone tools and of course fossils.  The work of an archaeologist is to uncover the palimpsest of human activity. To work over varying periods of time to investigate areas where humans have left visible tangible signs of their activities in the landscape. This work is important through all historic ages. You work as part of a team to record data from all aspects of an ...

In the Stone- age, people couldn't just pop to the supermarket to buy their food; they had to either hunt it or gather it, hence the name- 'hunter- gatherers'. The Stone age people's diet was made up of meat and berries and nuts they found. Farming was invented during the prehistoric era but not until later. People had to eat anything they caught or found otherwise they would starve. During the Ice-age, there were animals like reminders, mammoths and even wooly- rhinos! When the warmer periods, Britain was as hot as Africa and there would be creatures such as hyenas, elephants and hippos migrating to Europe but when Britain cooled down, there was the species that we are familiar with today such as birds, fish and shell fish. They would eat nuts such as hazelnuts and fruit such as bilberries (like large blueberries) and also roots that they found underground. The Hunter- gatherers used simple hand- crafted tools like hammers made from antler of bone, blades made fro...

WARNING: Contains nuts and dairy This recipe is from the Neolithic age. It is a very simple recipe which is suitable for breakfast or pudding. Ingredients: fresh raspberries fresh blueberries a few hazelnuts a little bit of cream Equipment: bowl chopping board  sharp knife  spoon WASH YOUR HANDS FOR HYGIENE PURPOSES!!! Method: Add the fruit to a bowl Drizzle the cream over Using the board, chop or crush the hazelnuts Eat fresh

Prehistoric: Relating of denoting the period before written history. When you think of prehistoric society, people normally think wild cavemen chasing great big dinosaurs! But in actual fact the prehistoric homosapiens were intelligent. They knew how to hunt and the discovered how to farm. The homosapiens were kind of replacements for the Neanderthals.