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Tuesday, August 3
August 3, 2010

A 67,000-year-old foot bone discovered deep in the Callao cave network suggests that the Philippines were settled 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. The bones of deer and wild boar were found near the foot bone, and although they bear cut marks, no tools were recovered. Scientists will look for more fossils in order to […]

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Monday, August 2
August 2, 2010

A campsite in southern Jordan that was used by Lawrence of Arabia’s army during the 1916-1918 Great Arab Revolt has yielded two tobacco containers, bullets, cartridges and their clips, and British military buttons. The skeleton of a person who suffered from a rare bone disease has been uncovered at a monastery hospital in east Iceland. […]

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