Skull Heap Reveals Strange Prehistoric Ritual Practiced for Centuries
Neolithic people collected and deposited skull bones in the center of a village as part of a ritual tradition more than 7,000 years ago.
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How a giant prehistoric elephant skull helped untangle an evolutionary mystery
About 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe ... or perhaps to the more enigmatic Denisovans. Humans aside, however, the skull's shape presented a conundrum, one that led us to embark on ...
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Researchers Track Down When Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans Interbred Using Ancient Genomes
Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...
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Humans and Neanderthals interbred, and scientists now know when
Long ago, early humans shared the earth with several ... (MPI-EVA), and involved sequencing the genomes from the skull of a human specimen, called Zlatý kůň, that is about 45,000 years old ...
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Human skull found in Kitsap County was 'sitting on shelf indoors for many years'
TRACYTON, Wash. — A human skull found on the side of a busy road in Kitsap County was "likely a medical specimen at some point," according to the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. The skull ...