Mimi Lam of the University of British Columbia thinks that Acheulean hand axes, which had a standard shape, may have been an exchangeable commodity among early humans.

A new book by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution and Bruce Bradley of the University of Exeter has people talking about the peopling of the Americas.  Could Stone Age Europeans, known as the Solutreans, have traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the eastern coast of North America? “Anyone advancing a radically different hypothesis must be willing to take his licks from skeptics,” commented Gary Haynes of the University of Nevada, Reno.

An examination of 13,000-year-old animal bones held at Ohio’s Firelands Historical Society Museum found cut marks thought to have been made by humans. “The significant age of the remains makes them the oldest evidence of prehistoric human activity in Ohio,” said Brian Redmond of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Turkey’s Ministry of Culture has blocked loans to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London because the institutions have disputed antiquities in their collections.

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