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The pelvis of one male had a bone spear point embedded in it. Others had severe skull fractures. [10] [11] [12] Children and teenagers were buried with more grave goods than were adults, indicating the high value placed on children. Skeletons included one of a male aged about 15 who had spina bifida. All of his bones were found to have been ...
It consists of the mummified head, trunk, and left forelimb of a mammoth calf. It was recovered from muck near a prehistoric scraper. [5] Fishhook Mammoth [7] Shoreline banks of the estuary of the Upper Taimyra River, Taymyr Peninsula, Siberian Federal District. [7] 1990-1992 [7] 20,620±70 [7] Partial woolly mammoth carcass [7] Jarkov Mammoth ...
The "Court of the Pile Dwellers" [b] at Key Marco was a small muck pond, covering less than an acre. The conditions in the muck preserved the wood and other objects, including those made with bone, fiber, gum, rawhide and gut. Objects of stone, shell and pottery were also found in the pond. [5] [6]
Dubbed the “Manis projectile point,” the ancient spear tip is the oldest bone weapon in America, researchers said in a study published Feb. 1. Estimated to be around 13,900 years old, the ...
The bones of the newborn or unborn infants consisted of some whole skeletons as well as dismembered femurs and skulls. These remains are particularly intriguing since they point to the possibility of human sacrifice , a ritual without direct evidence in the Olmec archaeological record.
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Bone fragments unearthed in a cave in central Germany show that our species ventured into Europe's cold higher latitudes more than 45,000 years ago - much earlier than previously known - in a ...
Bison antiquus is known from fossils found across North America south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (whose southernmost extent is around the modern United States-Canada border), ranging from southern Canada (southern Alberta [8] and Ontario [10]) in the north, and Washingon State [11] and California [12] in the west, southwards to Southern Mexico [9] and eastwards to South Carolina and Florida.