Wooden spear hole in a Neanderthal scapula may be earliest lethal strike
A circular puncture the size of a large marble sits in the left shoulder blade of a Neanderthal known as Shanidar A. The bone, roughly 75,000 years old, comes from…
A Bronze Age cargo with no ship left: divers off Turkey find what may be the oldest wreck ever discovered
Some 4,500 years ago a small merchant boat went down off what is now Turkey’s southern coast, and the sea swallowed every trace of its timber. What it could not…