Meet the flint stones: Olomouc scientists track prehistoric hunters through flint samples

Photo: Blanka Mazalová, Czech Radio

Prehistoric mammoth hunters who moved across the Czech lands roughly 30,000 years ago are being tracked today by Olomouc scientists. By mapping ancient deposits of worked flint, they have found that the hunters could move over distances of one hundred kilometres or more.

While easy to ignore, small stones can reveal a great deal about our ancient ancestors.

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Author: Danny Bate