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  1. Archaeology

    60,000-year-old poison arrowheads show early humans’ skillful hunting

    A new analysis uncovers traces of poison on the South African arrowheads, pushing back the timeline for poisoned weapons by more than 50,000 years.

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    Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

    Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ancient site in England.

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    A clay figurine unveils a storytelling shift from 12,000 years ago

    A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs entered a new phase among early villagers in the Middle East.

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    Peru’s Serpent Mountain sheds its mysterious past

    No, aliens had nothing to do with a winding 1.5-kilometer-long path of holes. First used as a market, the Inca then repurposed it for tax collection.

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    Fossil hand bones point to tool use outside the Homo lineage

    The fossil wrist and thumb bones suggest Paranthropus boisei could grasp tools around 1.5 million years ago.

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    12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert’s lush past

    Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there thousands of years ago.

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  7. Archaeology

    Venice’s iconic winged lion statue originated in ancient China

    European artisans turned a Tang Dynasty tomb guardian sculpture into a symbol of medieval Venetian statehood, researchers say.

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    Ancient hominids made long road trips to collect stone for tools

    A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

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    This ancient Siberian ice mummy had a talented tattooist

    Researchers reconstructed a roughly 2,000-year-old woman’s tattoos, from prowling tigers to a fantastical griffinlike creature.

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