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Dr. Larry Barham, from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom, works on the excavation of the tree trunk found alongside a wedge (object b in the following figure) dated at around 476,000 years old.

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412

The Wood Age

March 18, 2025

71,000 BCE bifacial silcrete point found at the Blombos Cave in South Africa.

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398

Earth’s First Geologists

December 10, 2024

A peek through a "skylight" into the interior of an active lava tube on the south flank of the Kīlauea Volcano on Hawai‘i’s big island in the early 1970s.

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395

Living in Lava Tubes

November 19, 2024

A ball python

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392

Python Protein

October 29, 2024

A new graduate indicates success with two thumbs up

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387

Opposable Thumbs Up!

September 24, 2024

Jakarta

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354

Cities Are Sinking

February 6, 2024

A waitress serves a traditional beer

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334

What Did We Domesticate First?

September 19, 2023

White Cliffs of Dover

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318

Britain’s Stone Age Mines

May 30, 2023

Moai at Rano Raraku

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310

Easter Island Egg Hunt

April 4, 2023

Large four-wheel drive pickup wrapped around a utility pole

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309

Twister Myths

March 28, 2023

Rough opal

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301

Outback Opals

January 31, 2023

Volcano erupting on Whakaari/White Island in 2011

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293

New Zealand’s Fatal Eruption

December 7, 2022

288 thumb drawing of skeleton in hat

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288

The Sum of All Humans

November 2, 2022