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Wednesday, August 3
August 3, 2011

The 33,000-year-old skull of a dog in the very early stages of domestication  has been found in Siberia’s Altai Mountains. “At this time, people were hunting animals in large numbers and leaving large piles of bones behind, and that was attracting the wolves,” said evolutionary biologist Susan Crockford. Skeletons have been unearthed outside the boundaries […]

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Tuesday, August 2
August 2, 2011

Two partially mummified bodies were discovered at the burial ground located in Mexico’s Giant’s Cave. The remains are thought to be between 800 and 1,000 years old. Two people were arrested in Istanbul for attempting to sell artifacts at the Grand Bazaar. The York Archaeological Trust continues to study the skeletons unearthed between 2004 and 2005 at […]

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