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A new study provides “the first direct evidence for puberty” in Upper Paleolithic adolescents after analyzing 13 skeletons ...

An analysis of around a dozen teenagers who lived during the Paleolithic reveals that they hit puberty around the same time ...

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ZHAO RUIXUE/CHINA DAILY Prior to discovering Bashan, archaeologists from the Shandong Institute of Cultural Relics and ...

A discovery made in the cave of La Garma (Cantabria, north of Spain) has shed new light on the hunting techniques used by our ...

Using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers confirmed that supermassive black holes can starve their host ...

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Enigmatic Norchia is an archaeological site nestled within Italy's leafy landscapes near Vetralla, in Lazio. This historical ...