Thursday, November 5
A 14,230-year-old scraper-like bone tool has reportedly been found in Oregon’s Paisley Cave, where coprolites dated to 14,000 to 14,270 years ago were found last year.
But Pennsylvania’s Meadowcroft Rockshelter dates to 16,000 years ago.
Conquistador Hernando de Soto probably stopped in Telfair County, Georgia, in 1540, according to Dennis Blanton of the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta. “What we have now is the best-documented collection of Spanish artifacts in Georgia. Many are unique and they are the only examples of certain artifacts ever found outside Florida,” he said.
How are humans and chimpanzees alike? Was Ardipithecus ramidus our last common ancestor?
Mesa Verde National Park in southwest Colorado could soon receive funding for a new curation facility and visitor center.
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