Archaeological evidence that thousands of years ago, humans domesticated foxes
by Boing Boing
Boing Boing— Analysis of a 1,500 year old grave in northwestern Argentina, containing the skeletons of a person and a fox, suggest that the fox was a human companion. For CNN, Mindy Weisberger writes that humans domesticated foxes thousands of years ago. Archaeologists originally uncovered the near-complete D. — Read the rest
Phys.org—Researchers reconstruct landscapes that greeted the first humans in Australia around 65,000 years ago. Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time—approximately 65,000 years ago—the first humans arrived in Sahul, a place previously devoid of any hominin species.
Boing Boing—What Neanderthals looked like 75,000 years ago. Basing their work on a skull unearthed in 2018, researchers reconstructed the head of a mid-forties Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago. Shanidar Z, as she has been named, was about 5ft tall and her sex determined via dental proteins. — Read the rest
WV MetroNews—Remembering the Benwood Mine Disaster 100 years ago. Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the Benwood Mine Disaster. It was shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, April 28, 1924, when an explosion and fire tore through the Wheeling Steel Corporation mine in the northern panhandle community just south of Wheeling. Over 100 men had gone in the mine just a half-hour before to