More than 150 whale bone tools and projectile points from caves around the Bay of Biscay show that Magdalenian people were using whale remains as raw material at least 20,000 years ago. Analysis ...

An individual buried some 2,000 years ago in what is now Scotland probably had her brain removed and some of her limb bones turned into tools after she died 1. The individual, a female adult aged at ...

Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that ...

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Newly uncovered bones hint at how Iron Age Britons treated their dead. Plus, AI models have failed to beat human mathematicians at research-level problems and the everyday items that make great ...

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