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Wednesday, December 10
December 10, 2008

New research on 40,000-year-old fossils from the Sima de la Palomas, Spain, shows that they were clearly Neandertals. These “last Neanderthals” were not swept away by modern humans, but they did exhibit some modern human features. Archaeologist Gertrude Bell was instrumental in creating a pro-British government in Iraq in 1917. BBC News remembers her as […]

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Tuesday, December 9
December 9, 2008

The 41 artifacts found near the Huapalcalco pyramid in central Mexico could represent a culture that lived in the valley of Tulancingo between 600 and 900 A.D. “It is likely that the Huapalcalco pyramid has been built by people from this new culture,” said Carlos Hernández of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. Cuban […]

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