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New research suggest that the civilisations of the ancient Mayas collapsed due to complex combination of factors such as a change of climate, overpopulation and human-made large-scale landscape alterations, which led to the abandonment of many Mayan cities
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Bizarre prehistoric predator fish breathed air, had fangs and four ‘limbs’ was recently found in fossils from the Devonian period about 400 million years ago, revealing insights into the diversity and evolution of complete bony fish, of which the Harajicadectes zhumini was one of the first known
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History
Mysterious 30 cm long piece of mammoth tusk ‘Magic Wand’ with drilled holes into it, from 14,000-year-old grave in Poland finally explained as the oldest music instrument ever found, similar to a flute or whistle, symbolises the importance of music for the people of the ice age, researchers suggest
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New evidence suggest the native americans wasn’t the original native americans, who arrived 30,000 years ago, before the peak of the last ice age and the clovis people, but may have originated from Chile, Mexico and Nevada, opening up for new questions and possibilities for understanding the people of the Americas
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290 million year old rare and valuable fossil of skin, found in France by researchers, is the oldest found so far, believed to have belonged to a tetrapod, a four-limbed vertebrate ancestor to modern amphibians, reptiles and mammals, had distinctive texture of tiny bumps, likely for camouflage or protection
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Permian period
According to new study, Homo sapiens reached the higher lattitudes of Europe 45.000 years ago, in the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ) technocomplex, stretching from today’s Poland to England, with Neanderthales living next door in southwestern Europe during the transitional period between the Middle- and Upper Paleolithic
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Neanderthales
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Stone Age
Newly discovered culture at Shiyu site in North China, dating back 45.000 years show sophisticated toolmaking and cultural practices, including blades made for hunting, long distance exchange networks, and a human jaw from one of the first modern humans in East Asia, shedding light on the Homo sapien’s ancient migrations
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Stone Age
Very expensive airport Kansai International in Japan, built on two artificially made islands thought to stabilize at 13 feet above sea level, has steadily been sinking since 1994, however still remain open for business despite being 38 feet lower today
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World
Our ancestors, the Neanderthales might not have created technology like we are used to today, but they might not have been club-wielding grunts either, according to archaeologist Ludovic Slimak, author of The Naked Neanderthal, in which he argues that Neanderthales might have adhered to symbolic and ritualistic behaviour and perhaps were the original inventors of early tools often attributed to Homo sapiens
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Neanderthales
Our ancestors, the Neanderthales might not have created technology like we are used to today, but they might not have been club-wielding grunts either, according to archaeologist Ludovic Slimak, author of The Naked Neanderthal, in which he argues that Neanderthales might have adhered to symbolic and ritualistic behaviour and perhaps were the original inventors of early tools often attributed to Homo sapiens
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Neanderthales
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