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When did humans start burying their dead?Ancient caves mark the beginning of recorded burial rituals, but there's still so much we don't know about the history of human graves.
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13 of the oldest archaeological sites in the AmericasArchaeological discoveries throughout the Americas are pushing back the date for when humans reached the New World by thousands of years, rewriting the long-standing theory that people arrived only 13,000 years ago.
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Evidence of Roman-era 'death magic' used to speak with the deceased found near JerusalemResearchers think the morbid practice originated with pagan people who settled in the region after the Romans drove out the Jews.
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86,000-year-old human bone found in Laos cave hints at 'failed population' from prehistoryThe discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.
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Why are cave-dwelling eels growing skin over their left eyes? It may be evolution in action.These "greedy" eels likely retreated into the gloomy depths of underwater caves in search of tasty crustaceans and are adapting to the darkness by going blind, one eye at a time.
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20,000-year-old cave painting 'dots' are the earliest written language, study claims. But not everyone agrees.Stone Age dots, lines and Y-shaped marks might represent a type of proto-writing created by hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe at least 20,000 years ago.
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3,300-year-old cave 'frozen in time' from reign of Ramesses II uncovered in IsraelConstruction workers in Israel unexpectedly broke into a 3,300-year-old cave that looks like an "Indiana Jones film set."
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Neanderthals and Denisovans Lived (and Mated) in This Siberian CaveThe Neanderthals and Denisovans — both relatives of modern humans — were roommates, literally, for thousands of years in a remote Siberian cave, two new studies find.
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Hidden passage leads explorers to deepest cave Down UnderCavers have successfully navigated Australia's deepest cave and named it the "Delta Variant" after COVID-19.
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