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About 10,000 years before modern humans colonised Europe, a small group of them moved into a cave in southern France that had just been abandoned by Neanderthals – but they only stayed there for about 40 years Humans 9 February 2022 By Michael Marshall Excavations at the entrance of Grotte Mandrin Slimak-Metz A small group … Read more
US life expectancy dropped by 1.8 years in 2020, final official figures showed Wednesday, the steepest drop in more than 75 years driven in large part by the COVID-19 pandemic. Life expectancy at birth was 77.0 years for the total US population last year, down from 78.8 years in 2019, according to the Centers … Read more
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