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Sculptor Robert Pulley has spent decades balancing a teaching career while creating a dizzying number of sculptures in all shapes and sizes. From his studio outside of Columbus he has honed his ...
Built on the same colorful sedimentary stone as nearby Zion National Park, Sand Hollow is as close as you’ll get to playing golf on Mars. The more traditional desert front nine winds through red ...
Some scholars suggest this was a branch of the hunter-gatherer Hoabinhian culture, who made distinctive stone tools found in other parts of Southeast Asia, from southwest China to Indonesia ...
The iconic Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge in southern England was likely moved over hundreds of miles nearly 5,000 years ago, according to new research.
The centre of solstice activities at Stonehenge is the Altar Stone – a large sandstone slab of uncertain origins. Our new work has found a match for it all the way in Scotland.
00:48 The mystery of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Stonehenge’s central stone came from northern Scotland, more than 600 miles away from the monument, according to a new analysis of its geochemistry.
For Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, an Improbably Long Ancient Journey A six-ton megalith at the heart of the archaeological site traveled more than 450 miles to get there, a new study concludes.
The eight iwi of Te Tauihu o te Waka ā Māui are celebrating their use of pakohe or argillite with an exhibition at Nelson Provincial Museum. Hina-i-te-Māra Moses-Te Kani from Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Kuia ...
The chipped stone tools were likely used for cutting meat and perhaps scraping animal hides, he said. The researchers suggest the tools may be as old as 1.4 million years, but other experts say ...
Plastistones, a new type of sedimentary rock that’s part-plastic and part-rock, has been found on at least five continents and 11 countries. These rocks form when molten plastic cools within a ...