A tiny ivory maskette has been unearthed on the Nuvuk Islands in the Canadian Arctic, in addition to two houses made of stone and sod. The houses had been constructed by people of the Dorset culture, sometime between 1,500 and 800 years ago. The disputed, so-called Indian Head Rock will be returned to Kentucky. An […]

A collection of flint tools unearthed in Norfolk, England, is about 80,000 years older than the earliest known date for humans in Britain. “These early humans endured a difficult climate surrounded by harsh coniferous woodlands. We really didn’t think that early humans could cope with those kinds of environments,” said Nicholas Ashton of the British […]