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Animal bones from Ferriter's Cove were once treated as proof that domestic cattle reached Ireland before farming took hold. A new protein analysis identifies the remains as bear and wild boar instead, overturning a 40-year-old archaeological argument.
Heavy slabs still cover a small room inside one of Karahantepe’s most unusual Neolithic buildings. Archaeologists plan to enter it from above during the 2026 excavation season, opening a space that may have remained closed for roughly 12,000 years.
A new Nature study mapped 432 earthworks in southwest Amazonia and estimates that more than 20,000 may exist across the wider Aquiry cultural landscape.
Curiosity has photographed a broad field of polygonal fractures in a Martian valley, giving scientists another look at the water, sediment, and temperature changes that shaped the planet’s past.
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