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This rib bone discovered in a cave in the Spanish Pyrenees tells a story of Bronze Age violence. But who fired the shot?
Lead author and former Calvert Marine Museum Director Ralph E. Eshelman at the National Museum of Natural History with some of the Ice Age cave bear and peccary skulls that have been collected ...
Excavations in 2022 in the Basque cave of Isturitz, France, where several dozen whale bone objects were discovered. CREDIT: Jean-Marc Pétillon, Christian Normand.
Humans used whale bones to make tools 20,000 years ago Beached whales provided Stone Age humans with bones to fashion into hunting weapons ...
Hundreds of human bones found in an underground cave in Guatemala suggest chilling human sacrifices took place there.
The “blood cave,” though, stood out from the other caves discovered for its collection of human bones strewn across the cave floor, with dismemberment and traumatic injuries the norm.
Researchers uncover Europe’s oldest bone tool in Mezmaiskaya Cave, Russia. The 70,000-year-old spear tip reveals Neanderthal craftsmanship.
A new study of 18,000 year old bones from a prehistoric cave in Poland show the occupants were cannibals in search of a nutritious meal.