Combs of wood, bone, and ivory have turned up at ancient sites in the Old World, but solid evidence for such tools in the Americas was lacking until a recent study in northern Chile. That research ...

Only two other human bone combs have ever been found in Britain ... often in hill forts composed of simple round houses made of mud and wood. Celtic communities shared similar religious ...

This bone comb dates from time of Roman occupation - AD50-early 5th century. It was discovered in the Roman walled town of Dorchester and has fine bone teeth and decorative patterns. The comb may ...

When this comb was made it was much larger and would have looked prettyThe fragment of a bone comb was recovered during the archaeological excavations at the Prebendal Manor, Nassington.

The knotty question of the origins of our alphabet has been partly straightened out by the discovery of a comb. In June 2016 ... misidentified as a small bone. On closer inspection, Edward ...