“What modern people are doing with online social networks is what we’ve always done—not just before Facebook, but before agriculture,” said James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego. By studying the Hadza, who live as hunter gatherers in Tanzania, Fowler and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School found that social networks could have contributed to the evolution of cooperation.

A 7,500-year-old fishing trap has been unearthed near Moscow, along with hooks, harpoons, weights, floats, needles for nets, and knives made of moose ribs. The long term, Mesolithic inhabitants of the site fished during the spring and early summer and hunted during summer and winter.

Two men were arrested for treasure hunting in Lapu-Lapu City in the Philippines. They claimed that the dig had been paid for by a British national.

The Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, based at Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, works to bring home of all 84,000 members of military service who went missing during war or military action. This article from CNN briefly describes the process of looking for and identifying the remains of the lost.

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