Neolithic axes, adzes, and chisels have been unearthed in southeastern Tibet.

Here’s more information on the discovery of General Cao Cao’s 1,700-year-old tomb in central China.  

The modern cattle industry began in the eighteenth-century at Rancho de las Cabras, in Floresville, Texas. Its walls have been buried in sand to protect them until funding can be found for their preservation and maintenance.  

A human tooth was discovered in the attic at Blickling Hall, a Jacobean home in Norfolk, England, that was once owned by the Boleyn family. “You find a lot of interesting things working in a house with centuries of history, and you do develop a strong stomach over time, but we’ve never found a tooth before, so we’re just really interested to know where it came from and why it’s ended up in our attic,” said assistant house steward Louise Green.  

In Oxford, archaeological botanist John Letts has developed an old variety of grain that produces tasty bread and a straw long enough to use as roofing thatch.  

Chimps living in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea, Africa, use stone and wooden tools to prepare volley-ball sized Treculia fruit for eating. “It’s the first time wild chimpanzees have been found to use two distinct types of percussive technology, i.e. movable cleavers versus a non-movable anvil, to achieve the same goal,” said Kathelijne Koops of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in Cambridge.

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