Antarctic rocks can help sort stone tools from natural lookalikes
That will help archaeologists who study the Palaeolithic
Antarctica is somewhere archaeologists might be thought to have little business. After all, human beings did not reach it until 1821. Yet a study published in Antiquity by Metin Eren of Kent State University, in Ohio, argues it is worth their attention for precisely that reason.
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