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Evidence of Ice Age hunters: hand axes

An amateur Dutch archaeologist named Jan Meulmeester made a startling find which pleases scientists: an amazing collection of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years-old. He found them in an area about 13km off Great Yarmouth. Jan Meulmeester diggs regularly for mammoth bones and fossils in marine sand and gravel delivered the [...]

Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change

The climate has changed several times greatly in the history of our planet. The abrupt climate change events that occurred thousands of years ago are very important because it happened closer to this day and so there is a greater chance of it happening again. We must understand that to prevent it from happening again [...]