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12,000-Year-Old Stones May Be Earliest Evidence of This Transformative Technology
A new analysis of 12,000-year-old stones from Israel shows that they may be the earliest evidence of this society-changing ...
12,000-year old stones may be very early evidence of wheel-like technology
A collection of perforated pebbles from an archaeological site in Israel may be spindle whorls, representing a key milestone ...
Who invented the wheel? Scientists finally answer age-old question
The invention of the wheel is a major breakthrough in human history. But now, the records may have to be rewritten - as the ...
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12,000-Year-Old Spinning Pebbles May Have Set Humanity’s Wheels In Motion
After testing out replicas of the ancient devices, the authors of a new study suggest that they were functional spindle ...
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Fossil teeth hint at a surprisingly early start to humans’ long childhoods
Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.
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Part Of The Bronze Age "Treasure Of Villena" Appears To Have An Extraterrestrial Origin
First discovered in 1963, the Treasure of Villena is a haul of 66 items largely made of gold and silver. The treasure – ...
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The Mysterious ‘King Arthur’s Hall’ is 4,000 years older than believed
King Arthur’s Hall, a mysterious stone and turf structure on Bodmin Moor, is far older than anyone could have imagined — ...
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Oracle bones: 3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the future
Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...