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Mexico · MexicoUnderneath the remains of an ancient young adult man and his preserved feces lies a microscopic world. These microorganisms beneath the cloth hold clues to what the world may have looked like hundreds of years ago. Now, a new look at a 1,000-year-old mummy called the Zimapán man could tell us what ancient Mesoamericans ate, where they lived, and show us how much our world has changed since. Who is the Zimapán man? In 2014, locals near Zimapán, …See the Story
A mummy microbiome hides inside 1,000-year-old poop
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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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