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Kikai eruption 7,300 years ago and the fate of the Jomon population of Kyushu
Around 7,300 years ago, on the sea floor off the southern tip of the island of Kyushu, the Kikai volcano erupted. It is known as the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, after the layer of orange volcanic ash, "akahoya", that it left behind. The eruption caused violent earthquakes, enormous
Black patina on the Etruscan statue “Arringatore” in Florence found to be deliberate
The bronze statue "The Orator", the Arringatore, depicts an Etruscan man in a toga with a raised hand. It was found in 1567 at Pila, near Perugia, and is now kept in Florence. According to reports of the time, the statue was green when it was found. It
Study of the Neanderthal Shanidar A from Iraqi Kurdistan in Scientific Reports
There is a popular story that a student once asked Margaret Mead what she considered the first sign of civilisation, expecting to hear about clay pots, fish hooks or grinding stones, and that Mead answered: a healed femur. An animal with a broken thigh bone cannot run from a predator,
Age of the oldest human footprints in North America at White Sands park refined
White Sands National Park in New Mexico preserves human footprints that scientists regard as the oldest evidence of people in North America. A new study has refined their age: between 23,500 and 21,700 years. This was the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, that is, the period when