Sixteenth-century infant skeletons uncovered on Mexico’s east coast show signs of malnutrition and acute anemia. Grave goods found with some of the children, including small figurines, suggest that what had been an important trading center before the arrival of the Spanish became an impoverished society. “The conquest was different from the rest of Mesoamerica because […]

A complete mammoth skeleton  has been uncovered in France, along with two fragments of flint blade embedded in its skull. “It is my belief that the mammoth was butchered by Neanderthals on this spot. Whether the animal was hunted down by them, or found dead some time later, we may never be able to tell. […]