Read more about the article Scientists Revive Stone Age Molecules From Neanderthal Tooth Plaque
Image shows dental calculus (tooth tartar), undated photo. It preserves DNA over millennia, providing unprecedented information about the biodiversity and functional capabilities of ancient microbes. (Werner Siemens Foundation, Felix Wey/Newsflash)

Scientists Revive Stone Age Molecules From Neanderthal Tooth Plaque

Scientists have revived Stone Age microbes from 100,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth that they say could be a breakthrough in the hunt for new antibiotics. The microbes have been isolated from plaque…

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Read more about the article Stone Age CSI As DNA On Elk Tooth Pendant Reveals Woman Who Wore It
Image shows a pierced deer tooth discovered from Denisova Cave in southern Siberia that yielded ancient human DNA, undated photo. German scientists recovered an ancient woman's DNA from a 20,000-year-old pendant. (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology/Newsflash)

Stone Age CSI As DNA On Elk Tooth Pendant Reveals Woman Who Wore It

A preserved Stone Age deer tooth pendant has revealed the identity of the woman who wore it after scientists extracted her DNA from the surface. The tooth - with a…

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Read more about the article Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study
Image shows an example of a long-tailed macaque using a stone tool to access food, undated photo. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in the city of Leipzig, Germany, claimed that some accidentally produced stone fragments made by macaques resemble some of the earliest hominin stone artifacts. ( Lydia V. Luncz/Newsflash)

Ancient Stone Age Human Tools Could Have Been Made By Monkeys, Says Study

New research into ancient tools has revealed that cutting stones once believed to be made by early humans could actually have been the work of monkeys. Scientists from the Max…

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Read more about the article Jail Sentence For Teen Who Graffitied Stone Age Temple
Pictre shows the Neolithic monument in Ggantija, Malta, undated. An eighteen-year-old on a school trip engraved two letters on one o the monuents and was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for four years and fined EUR 15,000 (GBP 13274). (Newsflash)

Jail Sentence For Teen Who Graffitied Stone Age Temple

A teenage high school student who graffitied a 5,000-year-old Stone Age fertility temple by scratching the initials 'B' and 'H' has been given a two-year jail sentence. The 18-year-old had…

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Read more about the article Steel Was Already Used In In Stone Age Europe 2,900 Years Ago, Says Study
Image shows geochemical analyses used by the researchers to show that stone stelae on the Iberian peninsula that date back to the Final Bronze Age feature complex engravings that could only have been done using tempered steel, undated photo. This was backed up by metallographic analyses of an iron chisel from the same period and region that showed the necessary carbon content to be proper steel. (Rafael Ferreiro Maehlmann/Newsflash)

Steel Was Already Used In In Stone Age Europe 2,900 Years Ago, Says Study

New research by German scientists has revealed that Europeans already used steel tools nearly 3,000 years ago. The groundbreaking discovery was made after scientists from the University of Freiburg analysed…

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Read more about the article Scientists Crack Secrets Of Ancient Farming With Stone Age Dung
Image shows sheep or goat droppings, undated photo. The animals were reportedly kept inside the settlements on Mondsee lake, in Upper Austria, Austria, during the winter. (OAeW/Newsflash)

Scientists Crack Secrets Of Ancient Farming With Stone Age Dung

Scientists have cracked the secrets of Stone Age farmers after studying ancient animal poo still perfectly preserved after 5,500 years. The Neolithic dung was harvested from an ancient settlement built…

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Read more about the article Mass Grave With 38 Headless Skeletons Found At 7,000-Year-Old Site
Image shows two of the 38 decapitated skeletons, undated photo. The scientists still do not know why their heads were removed in the town of Vrable, in the Nitra Region, Slovakia. (Dr Till Kuehl, Institute for Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University/Newsflash )

Mass Grave With 38 Headless Skeletons Found At 7,000-Year-Old Site

A 7,000-year-old prehistoric grave with 38 decapitated skeletons could contain the remains of victims of Stone Age headhunters, it has emerged. Astonished archaeologists unearthed the mass grave in Slovakia where…

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Read more about the article Ancient Americans Hunted And Butchered Prehistoric Elephants 13,000 Years Ago
Picture shows the excavation process of the Taguatagua 3 deposit, in Taguatagua, Chile, undated. More than a hundred fossil remains of gomphotheres have been found and the lithic tools used to hunt them have been recovered at the site since 2019. (IPHES/Newsflash)

Ancient Americans Hunted And Butchered Prehistoric Elephants 13,000 Years Ago

A startling discovery of a Stone Age slaughterhouse has revealed that ancient Americans were hunting and butchering prehistoric ancestors of elephants in Chile nearly 13,000 years ago. Scientists have unearthed…

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Read more about the article 3D Model Of 31,000 Year Old Beauty Could Be Her Cather-Twin
The digital approximation of the face of a Paleolithic woman who lived 31,000 years ago, undated. The skull found in 1881, inside a cave in Mladec, a village in what is now the Czech Republic, was reconstructed by Brazilian Cicero Moraes, a graphics expert. (Cicero Moraes, Jiri Sindelar, Karel Drbal/Newsflash )

3D Model Of 31,000 Year Old Beauty Could Be Her Cather-Twin

This is the reconstructed face of a Stone Age beauty unseen for 31,000 years ago - and she seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to a famous modern-day screen star.…

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