In northern Spain, archaeologists discovered 25,000-year-old cave paintings while looking for ancient settlements. The images depict horses and human hands. 

Homo heidelbergensis may have been the last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals, according to a new study conducted by a team made up of Silvana Condemi, Aurelien Mounier, and Giorgio Manzi of the University of Marseille. Scientists still don’t know exactly where the evolutionary split took place. 

The wreck of the Quedagh Merchant will be dedicated a “Living Museum of the Sea” by Indiana University and the Dominican Republic later this month. The accused pirate, Captain Kidd, captured the ship in 1699 off the west coast of India, but his men later abandoned it in the Caribbean. “All the evidence that we find underwater is consistent with what we know from historical documentation, which is extensive. Through rigorous archaeological investigations, we have conclusively proven that this is the Captain Kidd shipwreck,” said Geoffrey Conrad of Indiana University. 

Archaeologists are investigating a boat-building site on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, where they have found 1,000-year-old boat timbers and a canal.

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