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Stonehenge isn't the oldest monument of its kind in England, study reveals
Flagstones, an ancient monument and burial ground in England, is older than Stonehenge, a new radiocarbon-dating study finds.
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500-Year-Old Greenland Shark Vanishes Right After $7M Government Study
A 500-year-old shark, a $7 million study, and a baffling disappearance—what happened? Scientists spent years tracking ...
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Scientists Thought Neanderthals Went Extinct… Until They Dated THIS Skeleton!
The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...
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Could This Prehistoric Burial Site Have Influenced the Construction of Stonehenge?
Researchers say that Flagstones, a large circular enclosure in southern England, dates to around 3200 B.C.E.—which means it ...
Age of Famous Neanderthal Hybrid Child Pinpointed With Breakthrough Method
The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...
Scientists Found a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Who Lived Long After His People Went Extinct
Neanderthal genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves did, as new scientific dating of the famed ...
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Could 1,600-year-old Galilee synagogue rewrite history of Jewish life under the Romans?
New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...
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Mysterious Skeleton of Child With Human and Neanderthal Traits Has Finally Been Dated by Archaeologists
Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...
Scientists pinpoint age of suspected human-Neanderthal hybrid child
Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...
‘Old Stump’ in Texas Turns Out to Be Incredibly Rare Mammoth Tusk
While the statement doesn’t name a specific mammoth species, the tusk might have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, a distant cousin of the more familiar woolly mammoth. The shaggy elephantine animal ...
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The Age of a Human-Neanderthal Child's Burial Has Just Been Resolved
Learn about the Lapedo child, an ancient human with Neanderthal features who was buried at a rock shelter in Portugal between ...