Stone Writing Earliest Seen in Americas
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WASHINGTON - It's more than idle doodling and the meaning is unclear.
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A skull fragment found in a 400-year-old trash pit at Jamestown contains evidence of the earliest known surgery &#151; and autopsy &#151; in the English colonies in America, researchers say.
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In a discovery sure to set off a firestorm of debate over human migration to the western hemisphere, archaeologists in South Carolina say they have uncovered evidence that people lived in eastern North America at least 50,000 years ago - far earlier than
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Scientists said the fossils should give new insights into a little-known period of early human origins.
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WASHINGTON --Â A village of small houses that may have sheltered the builders of the mysterious Stonehenge - or people attending festivals there - has been found by archaeologists studying the stone circle in England.
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It's more than idle doodling and the meaning is unclear. But there's one thing researchers are sure of: The insect, ear of corn, inverted fish and other symbols inscribed on an ancient stone slab is the earliest known writing in the Western Hemisphere.
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A stone slab bearing 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars has been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
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A team revives the debate over whether a Bronze Age disc from Germany is one of the earliest known calendars.
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Nearly 4 billion-year-old rocks from Greenland could hold the earliest evidence of life on Earth, University of Chicago and Field Museum scientists say.
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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the human skeleton of what they conclude is the earliest known gunshot victim in the New World.
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An ancient native American cancer treatment is shown to have a beneficial effect, despite scepticism.
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A fossilized jaw found in an Alberta gravel pit may have cleared up a mystery for researchers wondering how brown bears originally made it across North America.
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Researchers at a British university say they have seen monkeys in South America using stones to dig for food in the wild, a use of tools never previously seen in non-human species.
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Scientists announced yesterday that they have discovered ancient writing, carved in stone, that dramatically pushes back the dawn of writing in the Americas.
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DNA extracted from an ancient human skeleton found in Alaska suggests that the New World was first settled by prehistoric seafarers 15,000 years ago.
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Divers making dangerous probes through underwater caves near the Caribbean coast have discovered what appears to be one of oldest human skeletons in the Americas, archaeologists announced at a seminar that was ending on Friday.