Broken pebbles offer clues to Paleolithic funeral rituals

[baalcat]

http://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2017/02/06/broken-pebbles-offer-clues-to-paleolithic-funeral-rituals/

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Archaeology articles make it quite often to the front page these days. It'd be interesting to find out what sort of computer technologies archaeologists use. Does anybody have any information on computer use in field work in this branch?

[JoeAltmaier]

They are supposed to have broken the stone tool after a ritual, to 'kill' it and remove is power. Or, I suppose, they just gave them to the kids.