Scientists have been examining the well-preserved Neanderthal bones recovered in 1994 from the Spanish cave known as El Sidrón. They think that the remains represent an extended family of 12 members who were killed and butchered. A mass grave of people killed in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, is being exhumed by archaeologists. “We […]

Tomorrow marks the winter solstice, when the chamber at Newgrange, Ireland’s 5,000-year-old tomb, fills with light at sunrise. Fluctuations in the climate influenced cultural changes in prehistoric New England, according to a review of information collected from Pennsylvania to Maine. “It’s not a straightforward relationship,” cautioned Samuel Munoz of the University of Wisconsin.   Pillar holes […]