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    How stone age flint manufacturing helped the Franks lose the Crusades

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14662035.2020.1823097 Very interesting paper about how the production of flint in paleolithic times at the Horns of Hattin, may have ultimately doomed the Crusaders there in 1187. The slag heaps impacted how the Romans laid out the fields, which thus...