by JESSICA E. SARACENI
Ray Norris, an astronomer for Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization, thinks that Australia’s Aborigines may have been the world’s first astronomers. “We’ve established there is all this astronomy, what I don’t know is how far back this goes,” he said.
One of the oldest skeletons in the Americas has been recovered from an undersea cave along Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. The caves filled with water as the ice caps melted at least 10,000 years ago. Researchers think that after the bones have been carefully dried out, they may shed light on the populating of the Americas.
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Some 100 rock art sites have been found in Somaliland, including a 4,000-year-old image of a man on horseback, and 5,000-year-old depictions of horned cattle, sheep, and goats. “With wars, droughts and piracy in Somalia, hardly anyone has researched the archaeology until now. But it’s absolutely full of extraordinarily well-preserved rock art,” said Sada Mire of University College London and a UN consultant for Somaliland.
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