The origin and evolution of hominin mortuary practices are topics of intense interest and debate1–3. Human burials dated to the Middle Stone Age (MSA) are exceedingly rare in Africa and unknown in East Africa1–6. Here we describe the partial skeleton o
The presence of little or no displacement of the unstable joints during decomposition points to an interment in a filled space (grave earth), making the PYS finding the oldest known human burial in Africa. The morphological assessment of the partial skeleton is consistent with its assignment to,...
Even though earliest Oligocene rhinocerotoid remains from Switzerland are known for a long time (Stehlin 1914; Heissig 1969; Uhlig 1999; Becker 2003) from the north-central Jura Molasse localities Bressaucourt (Canton Jura, northwest- ern Switzerland) and Kleinblauen (Canton Basel-Landschaft, ...
Below is the transcript of the letter in entry 436 (Fig. 1): “From what I have been told there is a rock near the Monte Christo Mine and known to the gentleman mentioned below, from which a specimen has been brought to Aliwal and lent to me, and I am very anxious, if it can ...
The earliest known form of the sport, called indoor tennis, was played in the early 1880s by British army officers in India and South Africa, using covers from cigar boxes as paddles(球拍)and round corks (软木塞)from wine bottles as balls, with a row of books set up ...
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This may be explained due to special circumstances of death or cultural identity: nomadic populations, pilgrims, deviant burials or plague victims. The requirement of a Muslim burial to take place within 24 h after death might have made some compromises necessary. It is known that one of the...
An international team of archaeologists has uncovered the earliest example of the use of a bridle bit with an equid (horse family) in the Near East. The discovery provides first evidence of the use of the bit (mouth piece) to control an animal long before the appearance of the horse in ...
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This urban settlement was located on the intersection of the northern Silk Road route which linked the cities of Khorezm in the south to the trading settlements in the Volga region to the north and was known in the tenth century CE as the capital of the nomad Oghuz. The presence of this...