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Thursday, December 1
December 1, 2011

Stone tools uncovered in Oman suggest that Homo sapiens arrived in Arabia tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. Optically stimulated luminescence dates indicate the tools, which resemble those made in northeast Africa, are roughly 106,000 years old. Scientists think that early modern humans from Africa may have traveled across the Red Sea […]

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Wednesday, November 30
November 30, 2011

Representatives from the Mohawk Nation and the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State claim that human bone fragments unearthed at the former Mohawk Institute in Ontario, Canada, are evidence of crimes. The Mohawk Institute had been a residential school for First Nations children who were forcibly removed from their homes. Forensic archaeologists from the […]

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