7,000 years older than Stonehenge: the site that stunned archaeologists: What makes them remarkable are their carved reliefs of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age. Dated at around 9,500BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge. Never mind wheels or writing, the people who erected them did not even have pottery or domesticated wheat. They lived in villages. But they were hunters, not farmers. [Guardian]
Neanderthals speak for first time in 50,000 years: The linguist teamed with Prof McCarthy to simulate Neanderthal speech based on new reconstructions of the Neanderthal vocal tract, based on three 60,000-year old fossils from France. “We are really saying that Neanderthals spoke, just a bit differently than we do,” he says. [Telegraph]
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