A cave in eastern Morocco has yielded 20 perforated shells thought to have been used as jewelry 85,000 years ago. Fourteen such bits of finery were discovered in the cave last year. The idea that comet impacts wiped out North America’s large mammals in the Younger Dryas event 13,000 years ago was a hot topic […]

A 1,000-year-old dug-out canoe that was once paddled on Tampa Bay was uncovered briefly from the muck on Florida’s west coast. “It’s the longest prehistoric canoe ever found in the state of Florida,” said Phyllis Kolianos, manager of the Weedon Island Preserve Center.  This article doesn’t have as much information, but it does have a photograph […]