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IMAGE: The view from Shukbah Cave view more  Credit: Amos Frumkin Long held in a private collection, the newly analysed tooth of an approximately 9-year-old Neanderthal child marks the hominin’s southernmost known range. Analysis of the associated archaeological assemblage suggests Neanderthals used Nubian Levallois technology, previously thought to be restricted to Homo sapiens. With a high …

IMAGE: The sites of Manayzah (Yemen) and Ad-Dahariz (Oman) yielded dozens of fluted points. The Arabian examples date to the Neolithic period, about 8,000 to 7,000 years ago, at least two… view more  Credit: Joy McCorriston, OSU A new study led by archaeologists from the CNRS, the Inrap, the Ohio State University and the Max Planck …