Tag: Belonged

A mysterious ancient grave with a sword and mirror belonged to a woman

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A roughly 2,000-year-old woman with a potentially violent streak has emerged from skeletal rubble found on an island off southwestern England’s coast.

A jumble of tooth and bone fragments in a Late Iron Age grave belonged to a young woman who was interred with items that include a sword, shield and bronze mirror, researchers report in the December Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. The team used a sex-linked protein extracted from tooth enamel to classify the remains as female.

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Researchers claim hip bone of an infant in France who lived 45,000 years ago belonged to an unknown human lineage

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Scientists may have discovered a new human species for a second time this week.

Anthropologists in France found a 45,000-year-old pelvic bone of an infant, which is neither a match to Neanderthals nor Homo sapiens.

The hip bone was found with the remains of 11 Neanderthals in the Grotte du Renne cave, later settled by anatomically modern humans (AMHs), suggesting the child coexisted with the now extinct species.

The artifact was compared against two Neanderthal and 32 modern baby bones,

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What if the Wind and Sunshine Really Belonged to All of Us?

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