90,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Discovered At Morocco Beach

In a fascinating discovery shedding light on human history and our ancestors, archaeologists have unearthed multiple human footprints on a Moroccan beach dating back 90,000 years. The team details their findings in a publication in the journal Scientific Reports. The rarity of finding human footprints from thousands of years ago is due to their fleeting …

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Were Neanderthals soulful inventors or strange cannibals?

The idea that Neanderthals had artistic sensibilities is questionable, some researchers say.Credit: Javier Trueba/MSF/SPL The Naked Neanderthal Ludovic Slimak Allen Lane (2023) Will we ever truly understand the Neanderthals? Archaeologist Ludovic Slimak paints a vivid picture in The Naked Neanderthal. Written like a philosophical travelogue, this intriguing book offers personal vignettes of archaeological excavations and …

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