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Phallus and the boar: Turkey digs yield clues to human history
AFP, Published on 15/10/2023
» KARAHANTEPE, Turkey: The dry expanses of southeastern Turkey, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone phallus and a coloured boar.
Huge complex of 500 standing stones found in Spain
AFP, Published on 19/08/2022
» MADRID: A huge megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones has been discovered in southern Spain which could be one of the largest in Europe, archaeologists said on Thursday.
Ice-age footprints shed light on North America's early humans
AFP, Published on 12/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Footprints laid down by Ice-Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a US desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants.
Earliest shell horn played for first time in 17,000 years
AFP, Published on 11/02/2021
» PARIS: After more than 17,000 years of silence and decades forgotten in a French museum, a shell fashioned into a horn by our prehistoric ancestors has been played again as a result of new research published Wednesday.
A woman's place? Out hunting with spears, study finds
AFP, Published on 05/11/2020
» WASHINGTON - A new study says a woman's place might never have been at home to begin with.
From the mouths of babes: bottles that weaned prehistoric infants
AFP, Published on 26/09/2019
» TOKYO - Archaeologists have uncovered the first evidence that our prehistoric ancestors in Europe weaned their infants much the way we do now, using specialised baby bottles to feed them animal milk.
Fossil of prehistoric deer found in Argentina
AFP, Published on 08/01/2019
» BUENOS AIRES - The well-preserved fossil of a prehistoric deer has been discovered just to the north of Buenos Aires, the La Matanza University revealed on Monday.
Australian indigenous languages have common source: study
AFP, Published on 28/03/2018
» SYDNEY - All indigenous languages in Australia descend from a single common tongue, a study revealed Wednesday in findings that shed new light on the country's cultural history.