Our spirits were lifted when we finally emerged from the forest on to the Valparai Plateau, where we would be based. The view was remarkable: apparently endless tea plantations, bathed in golden ...
Liscannor's famous stone is still finding its way to all corners of the world, many years after there was a thriving quarrying industry in the area employing 500 men in at least nine quarries in the ...
This means the archaeological record of human tool use is deeply skewed towards the much hardier stone. All this suggests that the origins of human technology could have been profoundly misunderstood.