• Australian dig finds evidence of Aboriginal habitation up to 80,000 years ago

  A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Australia’s north has extended the known length of time Aboriginal people have inhabited the continent to at least 65,000 years.

  The findings on about 11,000 artefacts from Kakadu national park, published on Thursday in the Nature journal, prove Indigenous people have been in Australia for far longer than the much-contested estimates of between 47,000 and 60,000 years, the researchers said. Some of the artefacts were potentially as old as 80,000 years.

• Dog domestication happened just once, ancient DNA study suggests

  People and pooches may have struck up a lasting friendship after just one try, a new genetic study suggests.

  New data from ancient dogs indicates that dogs became distinct from wolves between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago

• Archaeologists in Mexico Unearth Evidence That Aztecs Resisted Spanish Rule Even In Death

  Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered what they speculate was a dwelling where Aztecs of the higher socioeconomic classes that fought against the Spanish conquistadors tried to preserve their customs and traditions.

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