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Carved giant sloth bones may have been worn as personal ornaments

Early humans made jewellery from giant sloth bones

11 July 2023

The bones were shaped by people using stone tools before they were fossilised, adding new evidence for humans’ arrival in the Americas before the end of the last glacial period
Texas Rangers at Porvenir

Porvenir massacre: Did US army have larger role in 1918 killings?

11 December 2022

A ballistics analysis has raised new questions about the role of the US Army in the 1918 Porvenir massacre
A lidar-based image of one of the sites

Hundreds of ancient ceremonial sites found in southern Mexico

25 October 2021

Researchers have uncovered 478 ceremonial sites that were probably built by the Olmec and the Maya thousands of years ago

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