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A Child’s Skull That Has Long Confounded Archaeologists Might Be a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid, Study Suggests
According to new CT scans and models, parts of the 140,000-year-old skull resemble those of modern humans, while the jaw appears to be more similar to those of our extinct relatives ...
A 140,000-Year-Old Skull May Point to a Lost Branch of the Human Tree
In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...
New analysis of the Skhūl I skull: One of the oldest human burials in the world
In 1931, the Skhūl I fossil was uncovered at Mugharat es-Skhūl (the Cave of the Children), also known as Skhūl Cave, Israel.
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In Turkey, carved skulls provide the first evidence of a neolithic ...
Three carved skull fragments uncovered at a Neolithic dig site in Turkey feature modifications not seen before among human ... 75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried ...
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Ancient 'skull cult' might've carved up bones to shame their enemies ...
An ancient "skull cult" might've existed thousands of years ago in present-day Turkey. Three deeply carved skulls found at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site suggest that humans disfigured the ...