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Wildfires May Have Taught Humans to Make Pottery

Long before anyone built a kiln on purpose, the ground itself may have shown people how. A new study argues that a wave of prehistoric wildfires in the southern Levant, more than 9,000 years ago, scorched the region so thoroughly that it left behind naturally baked clay β€” and that Neolithic communities, watching the aftermath, […]

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Ancient Turkish Cave Reveals Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Shared Same Way of Life

A group of Neanderthals in a cave. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven.

ÜçağızlΔ± II Cave on TΓΌrkiye’s Mediterranean coast has yielded a rare and detailed record of two Homo species living the same way of life, one after the other, over more than 20,000 years, offering new evidence that the transition from Neanderthals to modern humans in the region was far more culturally seamless than previously understood.

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