The word 'textile' is from Latin, from the adjective textilis, meaning 'woven', from textus, the past participle of the verb texere, 'to weave'.The word 'fabric' also derives from Latin, most recently ...
A bow is a flexible arc which shoots aerodynamic projectiles called arrows. A string joins the two ends of the bow and when the string is drawn back, the ends of the bow are flexed. When the string is ...
Hand sewing needles come in a variety of types/ classes designed according to their intended use and in a variety of sizes within each type.Sharp Needles: used for general hand sewing; built with a sh ...
Main article: Projectile pointArrowheads made of bone and antler found in Nydam Mose (3rd - 5th century)Ancient Greek bronze leaf-shaped, trefoil and triangular arrowheads.Some arrowheads made of Quar ...
Ancient world Tutankhamun's gilded bed from the 14th century BCEarly beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural material (e.g. a heap of palm leaves, animal skins, or dried bracke ...
Beads may be divided into several types of overlapping categories based on different criteria such as the materials from which they are made, the process used in their manufacturing, the place or peri ...
Intentional burial, particularly with grave goods, may be one of the earliest detectable forms of religious practice since, as Philip Lieberman suggests, it may signify a "concern for the dead that tr ...
The earliest use of adhesives was discovered in Italy. At this site, two stone flakes partially covered with birch-bark-tar and a third uncovered stone from the Middle Pleistocene era (circa 200,000 y ...
Spear manufacture and use is not confined to human beings. It is also practiced by the western chimpanzee. Chimpanzees near Kédougou, Senegal have been observed to create spears by breaking straight ...
The territory of what is now Zambia was known as Northern Rhodesia from 1911. It was renamed Zambia on the occasion of its independence, in 1964. The new name of Zambia was derived from the Zambezi ri ...
Pigments appear the colors they are because they selectively reflect and absorb certain wavelengths of visible light. White light is a roughly equal mixture of the entire spectrum of visible light wit ...
ka (for kiloannus), is a unit of time equal to one thousand (103) years. This is typically used in geology, paleontology, and archaeology for Holocene and Pleistocene periods where a nonradiocarbon da ...
Human evolution is the part of biological evolution concerning the emergence of humans as a distinct species.Paleogeography and climate Main articles: Pleistocene § Paleogeography and climate, Plioce ...
Prehistoric technology can be described as:Prehistoric – "before we had written records," from the Latin word for "before," pr?. Prehistory is the span of time before recorded history, that is, befo ...
The idea for an invention may be developed on paper or on a computer, by writing or drawing, by trial and error, by making models, by experimenting, by testing and/or by making the invention in its wh ...
