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Earliest ancient Maya salt works excavated

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Earliest ancient Maya salt works excavated

A group of archaeologists from LSU and the College of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest recognized historic Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported within the journal Antiquity. The group was led by LSU Alumni Professor Heather McKillop, who first found wood buildings preserved there beneath the ocean flooring, together with related … Read more

Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India

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Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India

During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died near a river in the Kashmir Valley of South Asia. Not long after, they were covered in sediment and preserved along with 87 stone tools made by the ancestors of modern humans. The remains of these … Read more