This may seem like an obvious answer, but fire was essential for survival in cavemen times. They used it to keep warm during cold nights, and to roast meats, cook vegetables, boil water, and protect themselves from wild animals.
Flint and Steel
To create fire the cavemen made and utilized tools like flintstones which could spark when smashed together into dry tinder such as wood shavings; steel was unknown during caveman times.
The review of the German-speaking press is this time devoted to four archaeological discoveries which reconstruct the past by questioning it. What did twin babies die of more than 30,000 years ago? How did the Jewish community of Cologne live in the Middle Ages? On which continent did pythons appear
The recent findings made in the excavations in Pattanam, near North Paravur, in India add to the evidence that indicates that the site corresponds to the legendary port city of Muziris, key in the interactions between India, Persia and the Greek world. -Roman during Antiquity, but whose location was
Used for almost 1000 years, the Aswan necropolis in southern Egypt is a gold mine for archaeologists. Because this cemetery at the gates of Africa was the last resting place of cosmopolitan populations, Egyptians, Nubians, Persians, Greek soldiers and even Judean mercenaries. Report from our special
Vegetius explains that accurate communication is essential to the tactics of the armies , which can be carried out by means of vocal signals, commands spoken by the commander; semivowels, which require prior preparation to interpret the instruments when sounding; and silent, where the banners, emble