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Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction

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By Bruce Bower 
| Science News
Important, previously unrecognized genetic changes common to all ancient and modern Homo sapiens spread in Africa more than 300,000 years ago, a new study finds. After that, the same investigation concludes, human evolution experienced a regional twist. Ancient southern Africans evolved an impressive array of genetic tweaks largely independently of humans in other parts of the continent.
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A clay figurine unveils a storytelling shift from 12,000 years ago

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By Bruce Bower 
| Science News
A roughly 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel has unveiled a surprisingly ancient turning point in storytelling and artistic techniques. This tiny item, which fits in the palm of an adult’s hand, represents the oldest known figurine to depict an encounter between a human and a nonhuman animal, say archaeologist Laurent Davin of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and colleagues.
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Peru's Serpent Mountain sheds its mysterious past

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By Bruce Bower 
| Science News
New evidence may resolve a longstanding archaeological puzzle in Peru. A vast line of thousands of holes dug into a ridge in the foothills of the Andes Mountains served as a regional marketplace for pre-Inca groups more than 600 years ago, researchers report November 10 in Antiquity. Inca rulers later repurposed the 1.5-kilometer-long earthwork, known as the Band of Holes, as a place for receiving and distributing taxes, say archaeologist Jacob Bongers of the University of Sydney and colleagues.
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