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Ancient Tablet Etched With Mysterious Language Found in Georgia
17th December 2024 | sciencealert.com | Ancient, Humans

A team of archaeologists from across Georgia has confirmed the impressions represent samples of a script that has never been documented, raising questions on the spread and preservation of writing across the transcontinental region.This research was published in the Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology.

Butchered bones reveal massacre in Bronze Age Britain
16th December 2024 cosmosmagazine.com | Ancient, Humans

The remains of at least 37 people unearthed from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren in England have revealed the darker side of human prehistory…the findings have been published in the journal Antiquity.

35,000-year-old ‘tortoise shell’ carving may be Holy Land’s oldest evidence of ritual behavior
16th December 2024 | livescience.com | Ancient, Humans

A granite boulder carved more than 35,000 years ago deep in a cave in Israel may be the oldest evidence of ritual practices in the Holy Land, a new study suggests.

Archaeological study uncovers world’s oldest evidence of livestock horn manipulation
16th December 2024 phys.org | Ancient, Animal Life, Humans

Archaeologists Dr. Wim van Neer, Dr. Bea De Cupere, and Dr. Renée Friedman have published a study on the earliest evidence of horn modification in livestock in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

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