Woolly mammoth populations declined as warming temperatures shrank their habitats at the end of the last Ice Age, and then human hunters finished them off, according to a new study led by Spanish researcher David Nogués-Bravo of the Museo Nacional Ciencias Naturales. Excavators in Oxford, England, have uncovered a mass grave containing seven sets of […]

A 4,000-year-old necklace made of gold was discovered in a burial pit in Peru, near Lake Titicaca. “This is a time when social roles are changing and there are a variety of new ones as well as competition for them, so the gold reflects some of that prestige and status competition during this time of […]