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Scientists found 120,000-year-old footprints where humans were never thought to have walked
Researchers have discovered 120,000-year-old human footprints in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia. Preserved in an ancient lake bed, the tracks were left by a small group of Homo sapiens. These traces ...
The discovery shows humans were making fire about 350,000 years earlier than previously known. Sites in Africa suggest humans used natural fire more than a million years ago, but the discovery at the ...
During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...
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The team analyzed 260 engraved objects discovered in caves in what is now southwest Germany, including this 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine. Universität Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen, CC-BY-SA 4.0 ...
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