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Like the crooked finger of a fairy-tale witch, a fragmented ivory artifact recovered from an Ice Age dig site in southwest Germany several years ago almost wills to be pointed with sorcerous intent.
The tool, unearthed in Central Europe, suggests that locals made devices for stringing together sturdy cords over 35,000 years ago, researchers say.
Experiments with a replica suggest that a piece of mammoth ivory with carved holes found in a cave in Germany was used by ancient humans to make ropes
A study conducted by TraceoLab at the University of Liège has uncovered evidence suggesting the existence of long-distance weaponry 10,000 years earlier than previously estimated. The hunter-gatherers who settled along the Haine River in southern Belgium 31,000 years ago were already using speart
An entire woolly mammoth tusk's worth of CT images were successfully obtained by researchers. Using a more recent clinical CT scanner, scientists could scan the tusk completely.The new technology eliminates the need for numerous partial scans and enables large-scale imaging.