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An artists reconstruction of the instrument being played. In the background, a red dotted buffalo decorates the walls of the Marsoulas Cave. Similar motifs decorate the instrument. © Carole Fritz et al. 2021 / drawing: Gilles Tosello Researchers have identified the earliest known conch shell horn adapted by humans and have heard it played for the first time in 18,000 years, according to a new study published in the open-access journal Science Advances. Discovered in M...

January 23, 2021 Payal Dhar THE WASHINGTON POST – Social distancing and travel are two things, much like Kipling’s East and West, that you would imagine would never meet. Then the coronavirus made it clear that the tourism industry needed strategies to survive beyond the pandemic. Thus, we can now wander virtual galleries and museums, take off on digital safaris, and experience remote guided tours. Even university researchers have been taking an interest in the matter – consider this Corn...

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Spectacular Ice Age rock paintings found in Colombian rainforest Archaeologists have discovered tens of thousands of prehistoric paintings of animals and humans in a remote area of Colombia. Some now-extinct animals are depicted, meaning the art is likely more than 12,500 years old. These are rock paintings that take your breath away: Stretched across almost 12 kilometers (8 miles) of cliff face, there are geometric shapes along with tens of thousands of images of animals and humans, includin...

Spectacular Native American rock art newly discovered in the Colombian Amazon A team of archaeologists has announced the discovery of spectacular murals of precontact Native American paintings on rock faces in the Colombian Amazon. The paintings, which stretch, discontinuously, for nearly 8 miles (13 kilometers) along cliff faces, are reported to date as far back as 12,500 years ago, very early in the currently understood chronology of the peopling of the Western Hemisphere. La Lindosa. Blue sk...

Paleolithic obesity By John DiTraglia - Contributing Columnist I just read an interesting report by Dr. Richard Johnson et al. titled “Upper Paleolithic Figurines Showing Women with Obesity May Represent Survival Symbols of Climatic Change.” You last heard from me about Dr. Johnson on January 21 of this coronavirus year when we reviewed his book “The Fat Switch.” In that book, I’m sure you remember, he told us about primates who developed a fat switch to allow them to fatten up before...