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• Palaeolithic people may have amputated fingers in religious ritual, study suggests

  10-12-2018 20:55
  Early in human history, people were willing to make enormous sacrifices in order to satisfy their deities. Some cave dwellers even cut off their own fingers, according to new research.These are examples of negative hand images with missing fingers on calcite draperies in Cosquer Cave,located in Calanque de Morgiou, France [Credit: Jean Clottes]It was a mystery archaeologists couldn’t figure out for decades. Cave paintings nearly...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful
  
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• Clay pagoda fragment featuring nymph found in Japan's Honshu island

  10-12-2018 20:54
  A piece of pottery with an engraving of a smiling female figure was recently unearthed in Ishikawa Prefecture, located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island, that is believed to date back more than 1,100 years.A female figure is seen engraved on a piece of earthenware in Nonoichi,Ishikawa Prefecture [Credit: Chikako Numata]The artefact was found in the city's Suematsu district on the site of a ruined Buddhist temple, which experts...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful
  
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• South African skeleton shows humans learnt to walk upright in the trees

  10-12-2018 17:48
  The analysis of the world’s most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor, conducted by a research collaboration involving the University of Liverpool, offers conclusive evidence that human ancestors became efficient upright walkers while they were still substantially tree dwelling animals.Professor Ronald Clarke with Little Foot [Credit: University of Liverpool]The first bones of the 3.67 million old skeleton, specimen StW 573...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for
  
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