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Researchers revise timing of Easter Island’s societal collapse

"The general thinking has been that the society that Europeans saw when they first showed up was one that had collapsed"

Our ancient ancestors were pretty excellent engineers

Early Stone Age hominins optimized raw material choices based on functional performance characteristics

A 10,000-year-old skeleton found in Mexico shakes theory of human arrival in America

The skeleton – named Chan Hol 3 – belonged a 30-year-old Paleoindian woman

Neolithic Czech well claimed as world’s oldest wooden structure

Originally about four meters (yards) deep, the well was found in 2018 at the site of a future motorway

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