In a remote cave in the Gard region of southern France, a team of spelunkers made an astonishing discovery—a 16,000-year-old dog skeleton. This rare find not only offers a glimpse into the early ...

Is the order of the modern alphabet connected to how our shared ancestors counted the phases of the moon and its effect on tides 50,000 years ago? Did the first stirrings of government and bureaucracy ...

A fallow buck deer with palmate antlers. A new study from Tel Aviv University identified the earliest appearance worldwide of special stone tools, used 400,000 years ago to process fallow deer. The ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date ...

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