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  Fossils of Earliest Ancestors a Million Years Older Than Previously Thought: Scientists

  Newsweek - Simona Kitanovska, Zenger News

  Fossils of our earliest ancestors in the "cradle of humankind" are a million years older than previously thought, according to new research. The …

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  ‘Final resting place’: sacred Indigenous objects returned to Australia from US university

  Australia News - Australian Associated Press

  Seven sacred Indigenous objects have been returned to central Australia from an American university. A delegation of Warlpiri men from Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, collected the objects after they were repatriated from the University of Virginia last week. The American university houses …

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  Did a Viking Woman Named Gudrid Really Travel to North America in 1000 A.D.?

  getpocket.com

  More than 1,000 years ago, a woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the map with her husband and a small crew, landing in what the Vikings called …

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  Mystery of Black Death’s origins solved, say researchers

  The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editor

  Researchers believe they have solved the nearly 700-year-old mystery of the origins of the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in recorded history, which swept through Europe, Asia and north Africa in the mid-14th century. At least tens of millions of people died when bubonic plague tore across the …

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  Human tracks may be earliest evidence of people in North America

  Nova - Sukee Bennett

  Footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park challenge scientists’ timeline of when humans first came to North America. In southern New Mexico …

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  What the Discovery of Denisovan Remains in Laos Means

  sapiens.org - Kira Westaway, Mike W. Morley, and Renaud Joannes-Boyau

  This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons.What do a finger bone and some teeth found …