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Wednesday, October 20
October 20, 2010

Swiss archaeologists say they have discovered a Neolithic door made of poplar wood at a site where five villages have been unearthed. Burials at the Leper Hospital at St Mary Magdalen in Hampshire, England, have been dated to 960 to 1030 A.D., indicating that the hospital may have been England’s first. “Historically, it has always […]

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Tuesday, October 19
October 19, 2010

New radiocarbon dates at Grotte du Renne in central France suggest that its archaeological layers are so mixed up that ornaments and tools thought to be the work of Neanderthals could have been made by modern humans. The youngest Neanderthal ever unearthed in northwest Europe was approximately 18 months old at the time of death, […]

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