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Spark Blog: Video – Making Stone Tools Is Sooo Millions of Years Ago

November 20th, 2009
Spark Blog: Video – Making Stone Tools Is Sooo Millions of Years Ago

John Shea at Stony Brook University is keeping alive the stone toolmaking technologies used by our most ancient ancestors.

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Spark Blog: Working (and Playing) with Primitive Technology

October 6th, 2009
Spark Blog: Working (and Playing) with Primitive Technology

Larry Engel and the crew head to Stony Brook, where Alan Alda gets a lesson in primitive weapon- and bead-making from experimental archaeologist John Shea.

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In the News: Video – Pyroengineering

In the News

August 20th, 2009
In the News: Video – Pyroengineering

Pyroengineering. A big word for what early modern humans learned to do with silcrete at least 72,000 years ago, according to researchers.

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Spark Blog: Inside Alan Alda’s Brain

August 27th, 2008
Spark Blog: Inside Alan Alda’s Brain

In Oregon, we peered with both an MRI and a brain wave monitor into Alan’s brain to find out how he employs it for language and tool use.

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