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About 2900 years ago, an elderly woman was carefully buried with two lambs in her lap and a piece of chalk in her hand at a site now called Cliff ’s End Farm, about 30 kilometers north of Dover, U.K. She had been killed by sword blows to her skull, likely in a sacrificial rite. … Read more
Analysis of ancient DNA reveals a mass migration of people from what is now France to England and Wales between 1000 and 875 BC Humans 22 December 2021 By Carissa Wong Illustration of a Celtic hill fort in the Iron Age Heritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy The largest analysis of ancient DNA to date has … Read more
Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock shows it has a primitive composition and a curiously dark colour Space 20 December 2021 By Alex Wilkins Artist’s impression of Hayabusa 2 near Ryugu Akihiro Ikeshita The asteroid Ryugu contains some of the … Read more