Ancient Seaweed Tells of Earliest Americans: Remains of meals that included seaweed are helping confirm the date of a settlement in southern Chile that may offer the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas. [Discovery]

Past masters: Cro-Magnon people are sometimes depicted as crude, mammoth-hunting cavemen who were little better than grunting savages. The idea is a gross distortion of the truth, of course, as is quickly revealed with visits to the caverns in France and Spain where walls are adorned with their 20,000- to 30,000-year-old art. [Guardian]

85,000-year-old finery recovered in Moroccan cave: Archaeologists have uncovered shells used for finery by prehistoric communities 85,000 years ago in a cave in eastern Morocco, the country’s heritage institute said Tuesday. [Daily Star]