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A study by an international team of researchers, led by the University of Southampton, has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in western Europe.

A 31,000-year-old murder victim with a smashed skull has been found in a rock shelter in France, once inhabited by early humans known as Cro-Magnons.

The Cosquer Cave in Marseille, France lies deep under the sea where many prehistoric rock art paintings and rock art engravings are preserved. The discovery of the Cosquer Cave is an important rock art find in an area of France where no Palaeolithic cave art had ever been discovered.

Manganese oxide is an inorganic compound with the molecular formula of manganese dioxide. This black or brown solid naturally exists as the mineral pyrolusite, which is the main ore of manganese and a component of manganese nodules.

PARIS — A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers said.The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.After travelling from the icy reaches of our Solar System it will come

Researchers say they have discovered what they call a "proto-writing system" embedded in 20,000-year-old cave paintings, making it the earliest form of some sort of writing we've ever found.

The lines and dots which decorate some of our most famous cave paintings have finally been deciphered as the worlds earliest calendar, at over 20,000 years old.

Evidence shows that both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had complex diets involving several steps of preparation.

Our study shows that both Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had diets involving several steps of preparation and seasoning.

The food pieces include a mixture of different seeds, wild pulses, wild mustard, wild nuts and wild grasses - which could have formed meals resembling bread, porridge, or patties. Scientists have analysed the oldest charred food remains ever...