Caveman Decor

Is it a Picasso, a Pollock, or… a Neanderthal? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science — and Art PRE-history 101! Neanderthals are our closest EXTINCT relatives. Early humans certainly made art — but were there Neanderthal artistes?  Enter Dirk Leder and colleagues at the State

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Curse You, Cloak Stealer!

Archaeologists dig deep and find jawbones, soup spoons, a curse??? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Yes, that is exactly what archaeologist Richard Buckley of the University of Leicester in England found, after excavating an important Roman settlement from about three hundred AD. In addition

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