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News - 250, 000-Year-Old Neanderthal Teeth Analyzed
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (102+ words) News May 29, 2026 Digs & Discoveries July/August 2020 Top 10 Discoveries of 2016 January/February 2017 Digs & Discoveries January/February 2017 Discovering the surprising inspirations behind Homer's great tales of the Trojan War Why Neolithic and Bronze Age farmers in the Alps built their villages on…...
78, 000 Years of History: Africa's Oldest Human Burial Found in a Kenyan Cave
5+ hour, 22+ min ago (161+ words) Map showing the coastal location of the Panga ya Saidi Cave. (Ceri Shipton/CC-BY-SA 2. 0) Artifacts from Panga ya Saidi Cave in Kenya, showing tools found in floor sediment. (Ceri Shipton, Patrick Roberts, Will Archer/CC-BY) During cave floor excavation, the…...
Cheddar Man: The 10, 000-Year-Old DNA That Rewrote Britain's First Inhabitants
23+ hour, 1+ min ago (294+ words) Cheddar Man's DNA contained genetic markers for skin pigmentation that are usually associated with sub-Saharan Africa. Since sub-Saharan Africa is a significant distance from the British Isles, scientists wondered how the skin pigmentation of Cheddar Man could be so different…...
In Senegal, a 2, 000yearold iron workshop sheds new light on the past
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (729+ words) How was iron produced 2, 000 years ago in Senegal? A recent study at the Did" West 1 archaeological site, in the Fal"m" Valley in eastern Senegal, sheds light on an ancient iron production technique. Passed down from generation to generation for…...
Apes and monkeys never developed it, but 9 in 10 humans share a strange bias that scientists just traced to a single ancient shift in our bodies
20+ hour, 5+ min ago (676+ words) Roughly 9 in 10 people alive today are right-handed " a bias so lopsided it sets our species apart from every other primate on Earth. Apes and monkeys show no such extreme preference, yet humans have carried this quirk across every culture and…...
7 Ancient home rituals that may have scientific explanations
1+ day, 53+ min ago (635+ words) In Indian households, I grew up hearing rules that sounded strict, mysterious, or simply stereotypical, like do not sweep at night, drink water from copper vessels or offer water to the sun. For years, these habits were passed down through…...
The Secret Behind Indigenous Andeans" "Digestive Superpower" May Be Potatoes
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (814+ words) Summary: Scientists have uncovered evidence that the domestication of potatoes in the Andes influenced the evolution of human metabolism. A new study suggests ancient potato farming in the Andes may have shaped human evolution in an unexpected way. Indigenous communities…...
The death jar: giant stone vessel reveals lost burial tradition in Laos
21+ hour, 48+ min ago (648+ words) New excavations at Site 75 are providing some of the strongest evidence yet that at least some of these enigmatic monuments served as communal burial chambers. At the heart of the discovery is Jar 1, an unusually large stone vessel that has…...
Oldest evidence of human cremation discovered: Burned 100, 000-year-old Homo sapiens bones found in Ethiopia's Afar Rift
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (83+ words) Oldest evidence of human cremation discovered: Burned 100, 000-year-old Homo sapiens bones found in Ethiop The Times of India - Oldest evidence of human cremation discovered: Burned 100, 000-year-old Homo sapiens bones found in Ethiopia's Afar Rift Early human cremation evidence: Scientists debate…...
We don't like the same music
19+ hour, 57+ min ago (440+ words) Q. I am a single man, 70 years old. I recently met a woman I like in many ways, but here is the issue: Music has always been very important to me. I have thousands of albums and have seen a similar…...