Prehistoric men also recycled
Studies show that in the Paleolithic period there was already reuse of tools
According to studies carried out in Catalonia, a region located in Spain, recycling is not a current activity, quite the opposite. Evidence shows that in the Paleolithic period of history, men already recycled their stone artifacts.
At Universitat Rovira e Virgili and at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoncology and Social Evolution (IPHES), scientists and researchers, after analyzing burnt artifacts found in the archaeological site of Molí del Salt, in Tarragona, concluded that, 13 thousand years ago, reuse of utensils was common in people's daily lives.
The fact that the objects were burned is one of the biggest indications that tools were being recycled, according to what the team of scientists told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. Despite the large amount of burnt tools found, archaeologists also claim that this practice did not apply to all types of tools.
According to the analyses, recycling was more common in domestic activities, which were of immediate necessity. For practices such as hunting, the reuse of tools was less common.
Recycling in antiquity may also have been a determining factor in hunter-gatherer villages in the Paleolithic period, but so far there are few studies on the reuse of tools in Prehistory. The article published in August in the Journal of Archaeological Science about the researches of the Catalans may help to discover more information about this activity.
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