Footprints discovered in Kenya are thought to have been made by Homo ergaster or Homo erectus. The prints are approximately 1.5 million years old, and are the earliest evidence of modern upright walking.

Underground passageways have been found beneath St. George’s Square in Valletta, Malta. The tunnels may have been built by the Knights of the Order of St. John as part of a drainage system.  

Scientists are gathered in Paris today to discuss how to stop the spread of fungus, algae, and bacteria over the prehistoric paintings inside the Lascaux Caves.  

This article from the Associated Press on the Clovis tools unearthed in Colorado has a few details that were missing from yesterday’s announcement.  

Modern cave-dwellers in Missouri could soon be out on a ledge because they can’t refinance their mortgage.

Movie star Jackie Chan, who reportedly collects antiquities, has criticized the sale of two Chinese bronze animal heads that had been in the collection of the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent. Chan says he will start filming a movie next year about the search for and return of artifacts taken from Beijing’s Summer Palace.

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