J. Desmond Clark
Four amazing Stone Age sites with wooden artifacts
From Africa, Asia, and Europe, these sites give us a rare window into the ways that organic technology shaped ancestral lives.
![Four views of a double-pointed throwing stick in center, with detail of sharpened points at top left and bottom right.](/content/images/size/w1460/2024/04/milks-double-pointed-stick-schoningen-plos-2023.jpg)
Did Acheulean hominins have long-distance obsidian trade?
I review several papers looking into the occurrence of obsidian artifacts in the Acheulean of eastern Ethiopia.
![J. Desmond Clark photographing artifacts on a desert landscape](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/01/desmond-clark-Adrar_Bous-andrew-smith-wikimedia.jpg)