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Things like the Lion Man ( https://blog.britishmuseum.org/the-lion-man-an-ice-age-masterpiece/ ) predate it by a few tens of thousands of years. But you need to distinguish between symbolic art / ritu... View More
How the World’s Oldest Wooden Sculpture Is Reshaping Prehistory
At 12,500 years old, the Shigir Idol is by far the earliest known work of ritual art. Only decay has kept others from being found.
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Anthropologists confirm existence of specialized sheep-hunting camp in prehistoric Lebanon - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Anthropologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have confirmed the existence more than 10,000 years ago of a hunting camp in what is now northeastern Lebanon - one that straddles the period mark...
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At the end of the Miocene, between 5.96-5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea dried out. The Nile carved a colossal bedrock canyon to ~570 m BELOW present sea level at Cairo and to −170 m at A... View More
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Neolithic Europe was subjected to devastating conquest. Discover the untold story hidden in ancient DNA.
Story of most murderous people of all time revealed in ancient DNA | New Scientist
Starting 5000 years ago, the Yamnaya embarked on a violent conquest of Europe. Now genetic analysis tells their tale for the first time
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Evidence for human involvement in extinction of megafauna in the late Pleistocene – Popular Archeology
Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas.
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Unfortunately she wouldn't have been topless though lol see the Egvet burial!!
"In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread funeral practice cons... View More
"In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread funeral practice cons... View More
Foxes were domesticated by humans in the Bronze Age
In the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, between the third and second millennium BC, a widespread funeral practice consisted in burying humans with animals. Scientists have discovered that both foxe...
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Giant deer have *huge* neural spines on their vertebrae to allow for massive neck muscles that can support the weight of their 4m-wide antlers.
"New research, led by the University of Bristol, has shed new light on the eating habits of Neolithic people living in southeastern Europe using food residues from pottery extracts dating back more th... View More
