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South Africa's 'cradle of humankind' caves reopen to public
South Africa's 'cradle of humankind' caves reopen to public Seated on sandbags in a knee-deep grid dug in South Africa's Sterkfontein caves, where one of our earliest ancestors was found, Itumeleng ...
Gladiator bones finally confirm human-lion combat in Roman Europe
Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...
A Roman Gladiator and a Lion Met in Combat. Only One Walked Away.
A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...
Women from the Bronze Age already carried heavy loads on their heads, skeletal analysis finds
An interdisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) reveals that women living in the region of ...
Live Science3d
Human ancestor was in Eurasia nearly 2 million years ago, cut marks on animal bones suggest
Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery ...
The Mail & Guardian5d
The God Edition | Searching among the bones for Homo naledi’s soul
Drew Forrest uses one of South Africa’s most important hominid discoveries to debate the paradoxes and contradictions ...