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Elephants · RomeResearchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone implements, many showing impact marks from butchery. The findings reveal a consistent prehistoric strategy for resource use during warmer Middle Pleistocene periods.See the Story
Ancient humans in Italy butchered elephants and made tools from their bones
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Tehuacán · TehuacánPotsherds collected near the Scorpion Mound AUSTIN, TEXAS—According to a Live Science report, James Neely of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues suggest that country farmers used a 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped effigy mound in Mexico’s Tehuacán Valley to mark the winter and summer solstices from about A.D. 600 to 1000. The scorpion, which is oriented east-northeast, is one of 12 mounds in a complex covering about 22 acres. Made…See the Story
Ancient Mesoamerican Farmers Might Have Used Scorpion Mound to Track the Sun - Archaeology Magazine
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Türkiye · TurkeyRoman baths, Kaunos, Turkey MUĞLA, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that an investigation of an area near the harbor of the ancient city of Kaunos has yielded a Roman hospital structure featuring rooms arranged around a courtyard and a collection of medical instruments dated to the second and third centuries A.D. Ufuk Çörtük of Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University said that the Romans first established such hospitals to treat soldiers, but civilians …See the Story
Traces of Roman Hospital Uncovered in Southwestern Turkey - Archaeology Magazine
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