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In a cave in Israel, 100,00-year-old bones tell a story about the origins of burial rites
Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world’s oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years ...
100,00-year-old bones tell a story about the origins of burial rites
Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years ...
The 4,000-year-old mystery of a shepherd’s arrow to the back
Grisly, 4,000-year-old forensic evidence found in a cave in the Pyrenees Mountains hints at a serious disagreement between ...
“Bone-Digesting” – Scientists Discover Unusual New Type of Cell
Researchers have discovered a new type of intestinal cell in pythons that helps them completely digest bones. Scientists ...
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Listen To This Musician Playing Beethoven on a 50,000-Year-Old Bone Flute Made By Neanderthals
Diedrich argued that Ice Age hyenas had powerful jaws and often gnawed on juvenile cave bear bones, puncturing them in ...
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Pierced Human Rib Bone Hints at 4,000-Year-Old Attack
Excavations in recent years at the site, which is known today as Roc de les Orentes, have uncovered more than 6,000 human ...
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An Archer Shot This Bronze Age Human in the Back. 4,000 Years Later, the Arrow Is Still Embedded in the Victim’s Rib Bone
The attack took place during a period of conflict between groups living in the Pyrenees mountains in modern-day Spain ...
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Mysterious stone head found on tiny Scottish island of Rousay
A carved stone head found on a tiny Scottish island has been described as a “fascinating enigma”. The head was found during an archaeological dig at Skaill Farm at Westness on Rousay in the Orkney ...
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Cut Marks on Animal Bones Suggest Neanderthal Groups Had Their Own Unique Culinary Traditions
Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart appear to have used different techniques while preparing meat, ...
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A Child’s Skull That Has Long Confounded Archaeologists Might Be a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid, Study Suggests
According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...