Prehistoric hooks and sinkers show early humans used advanced
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Archaeologists land world's oldest fish hook
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Making Metals: Ancient Metallurgical Processes
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Images of all JRD bone fish hooks obtained from 3D models, arranged by
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Fishing Gears and Methods: A Comparison of Ancient Mesopotamia and Other Ancient Worlds
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Frontiers Inland fishing by Homo sapiens during early settlement of Wallacea
China in the period of Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and contemporaries
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World's Oldest Fish Hooks Found In Japanese Island Cave BBC News
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Stone Age treasures unearthed in Sussex offer extraordinary insight into evolution of human intelligence, The Independent
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Early humans hunted monkeys and squirrels in the rainforest
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Ancient fish hook suggests sharks were hunted off Israel's coast 6,000 years ago
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Fossil Walrus Fish Hook, 44% OFF
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World's Oldest Fish Hooks Found In Japanese Island Cave BBC News
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Forging techniques involving the use of forming swages in ancient barbarian jewellery: an example of silver shield-headed bracelets from Weklice, Northern Poland
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Early line and hook fishing at the Epipaleolithic site of Jordan River Dureijat (Northern Israel)