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Opalized Bones Alter Australia’s Prehistoric History
Beginning with an excavation in 1984, an opal mine in Lightning Ridge (in rural New South Wales, Australia) suddenly became a hotbed for fossilized—and subsequently opalized—dinosaur bones. While the original team assumed …
Recreating the Face of a Neolithic Dog
Built upon one of 24 dog skulls excavated in 1901 from Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn in Scotland’s Orkney Islands, this facial recreation reveals the appearance of domesticated canines roughly 4,500 years ago. …
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Sleeping over at the Louvre, floating cities, what really happened to the dinosaurs and more from around the internet
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Restoring King Tut's tomb, turning waste into new materials, previewing Frieze LA and more from around the internet
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"Hearables," fungi, the history of both humanity and the bandana and so much more from the web
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This 2.4-Million-Year-Old Discovery Alters Human History
The discovery of 2.4-million-year-old stone tools in north Africa have—yet again—altered the human origin story. “The evidence from Algeria has changed [our] earlier view regarding East Africa [as] being the cradle of …
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Archaeologists Dig at Woodstock ’69 Festival Field
When digging at the famed Woodstock ’69 festival field (located in Bethel, New York—actually about 50 miles from Woodstock itself) archaeologists weren’t looking for love beads, a tassel from Jimi Hendrix’s jacket, …