Scientists say that a partial cranium and its associated mandible discovered in Spain in 2004 represent a previously unknown hominoid primate genus, dubbed Anoiapithecus brevirostris. The 12 million-year-old creature “bears a strikingly ‘modern’ facial appearance with a flat face, rather than a protruding one.” Roasted mammoth was served in 29,000 B.C. in what is today […]

Pottery bits found in a cave in southern China date to about 18,000 years ago, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Elisabetta Boaretto of Bar Ilan University. The discovery “supports the proposal made in the past that pottery making by foragers began in south China,” she said. […]