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Study Recasts 12,000-Year-Old Plains Artifacts as the Earliest Dice

A peer-reviewed reanalysis proposes that two-sided bone pieces from Folsom sites were dice, prompting calls for firmer dating and context.

Stone Age Sign Sequences Show Proto-Writing Structure 40,000 Years Before Cuneiform

Ice Age Markings Show Protocuneiform-Like Structure, Study Finds

12,000-Year-Old Sewn Hide From Oregon Caves Is Oldest Yet, Study Finds

New Finds at Aguada Fénix Show 3,000-Year-Old Maya Monument Was a Built Cosmogram

Inca Khipu Knots Reveal Commoner’s Role in Imperial Recordkeeping

3D Simulations Bolster Theory of Shroud of Turin as Medieval Artwork

4,000-Year-Old Handprint Reveals Ancient Egyptian Potter’s Touch

Complete 4,000-Year-Old Handprint Found on Egyptian 'Soul House' at Fitzwilliam Museum

Neanderthals’ 125,000-Year-Old “Fat Factory” Confirmed as First Large-Scale Bone-Grease Operation