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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has appointed a new Chairperson to the Climate Reference Group (CRG), an independent panel of experts who advise Council on climate and biodiversity related issues and developments. At a full Council meeting ...

The need to hunt small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons and improve their cognitive abilities.

Sept. 10

The team hypothesized that humans evolved modern traits as an adaptational response to the need to hunt progressively smaller and quicker prey.

Researchers have tested the atlatl, a tool that provides leverage to a dart or spear, and found it may have been an equalizer between men and women.

Researchers initially suspected the head portrayed a horse, but recent finds lend weight to the possibility it is a bear.

Learn about the evolution of archaeology and human interest in it with this excerpt from “Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past.”

A tiny hip bone belonging to an infant who lived 45,000 years ago was found in France. Experts believe the child was part of a previously unknown human lineage that lived with Neanderthals.

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From the blog of Arik Haglili at The Times of Israel