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Scientists Reveal Why the Human Face Is Smaller Than a Neanderthal’s
Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...
Greek Reporter5d
Where Civilization Began: Greece’s Theopetra Cave Reopens After 9 Years
Theopetra Cave, in Greece, believed to be the oldest human construction on earth, reopened to the public after 9 years of ...
National Geographic news4y
Before Stonehenge
What’s more, the Neolithic homesteaders and pioneers who ... This domino-size figure is the earliest depiction of a human face found in Britain. Whatever the reason, the ancient temple was ...
All That's Interesting on MSN2mon
Archaeologists Just Found A 9,000-Year-Old Shrine In The Jordan Desert That’s Almost Perfectly Intact
“Large standing anthropomorphic steles (stone slabs) are not so common in the Near Eastern Neolithic ... is inscribed with a ...
Smithsonian Magazine8mon
The Seeds of Civilization
The skull’s face was covered with soft ... Archaeologists have long debated what caused the Neolithic Revolution, when prehistoric human beings gave up the nomadic life, founded villages ...
New Scientist2mon
Human origins: Neolithic and Bronze Age Turkey - additional date added
With a rich history, it is of international importance for the history of the Neolithic Period and features the oldest-known life-sized human sculpture, Urfa Man, dating back to around 9000 BC.