Hammock Skeleton Stuttgart at the State Museum, Germany
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Archaeologists who excavate 400,000-year-old rocks in Western Ukraine have found parts that could be the oldest marfil objects ever found. These arteta would be too soft to use as a cutting tool, but they could be used as didactic support, researchers suggest.
“If interpretations are correct, it is apparently increasingly increasingly appreciated by the pre-modern intelligence of human beings,” says Gary Haynes At the University of Nevada.
