2-Million-Year-Old Skeleton Offers Clearest Look Yet at Homo habilis
A newly-described partial skeleton from the Koobi Fora Formation in northern Kenya is providing paleoanthropologists their most total photo yet of Homo habilis — among the earliest members of the…
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5,000-year-old dog skeleton and dagger buried together in Swedish bog hint at mysterious Stone Age ritual
The bone dagger (bottom center) in relation to the pet dog skeleton( center ). (Image credit: Arkeologerna, SHM) Archaeologists have actually discovered the skeleton of a pet along with a…
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1,500-year-old skeleton found in chains in Jerusalem was a female ‘extreme ascetic’
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a chained person in a Byzantine-era tomb in Jerusalem. (Image credit: Matan Chocron/ Israel Antiquities Authority) Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have actually found the…
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16,000-year-old skeleton, crystals and stone tools discovered in Malaysian caves
These 2 ancient skeletons buried at the Gua Chalan website were found by archaeologists excavating a limestone cavern there before it is flooded by a hydroelectric lake. (Image credit: Z….
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