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Archaeologists Found 115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Where They Shouldn’t Be
A uniquely preserved prehistoric mudhole could hold the oldest-ever human footprints on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say ...
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115,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in an Unexpected Location
The imprints were fossilized in the mud, perfectly preserved for over 100,000 years. These footprints are the oldest known human traces found in the Arabian Peninsula and may redefine our ...
A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.
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850,000-Year-Old Bones Reveal Toddler Cannibalism by Archaic Humans
Archaeologists in Spain uncover 850,000-year-old child remains in Gran Dolina cave, the earliest case of human cannibalism in ...
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Ancient human relative cannibalized toddlers, 850,000-year-old neck bone reveals
Cut marks on a child's cervical vertebra found at Atapuerca in Spain suggests Homo antecessor was indiscriminate about ...
Divers Found a 3,000-Year-Old Statue at the Bottom of a Lake—With Fresh Human Fingerprints
At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...
‘Remarkably well-preserved’ human skeleton of 13th-century knight found under ice cream shop
Archaeologists discovered a medieval knight's skeleton under an old ice cream shop. The find includes a rare tombstone and is ...
Ancient proteins found in fossils up to 24 million years old
Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...