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Iron Age Skulls from Northeastern Spain Studied14 days ago

Skull pierced by a nail

BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a ZME Science report, severed human skulls pierced with iron nails recovered from archaeological sites in northeastern Spain may have been created for more than one pu...

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Why Did Chile's Chinchorro People Begin Making Mummies?14 days ago

ARICA, CHILE—Bernardo Arriaza of the University of Tarapacá thinks that the Chinchorro people may have developed the practice of artificial mummification as a response to grief brought about by high infant mortality rates, according to a Phys.org

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When Did Europeans Begin Hunting With Bows and Arrows?17 days ago

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY—According to a SciNews report, modern humans may have hunted with bows and arrows in the early Upper Paleolithic, between 40,000 and 35,000 years ago. It had been previously thought that people living in Europe at this time hun...

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Large Hillfort Settlement Identified in Ireland19 days ago

COUNTY WICKLOW, IRELAND—More than 600 possible dwelling platforms and a cistern have been identified at Ireland’s Brusselstown Ring hillfort by Dirk Brandherm of Queen’s University Belfast and his colleagues, according to a Phys.org

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