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An automated ‘time machine’ to reconstruct ancient languages | KurzweilAI

An automated ‘time machine’ to reconstruct ancient languages | KurzweilAI | Science News | Scoop.it
Computer scientists have reconstructed ancient Proto-Austronesian, which gave rise to languages spoken in Polynesia, among other places (credit: A.

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Big Idea: Bring Ancient Voices Back to Life

Big Idea: Bring Ancient Voices Back to Life | Science News | Scoop.it

Rebuilding the vocal tracts of extinct creatures could let us hear long-lost sounds: an ancient whale song, the cries of our ancestors. 

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The complex thinking behind the bow and arrow

The complex thinking behind the bow and arrow | Science News | Scoop.it

University of Tübingen and South African researchers have revealed sophisticated design and technology developed by early humans.

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Probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism - X-rays probe world's oldest 'computer'

Probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism - X-rays probe world's oldest 'computer' | Science News | Scoop.it
Scientists using X-ray imaging find out some of the secrets of the world's oldest 'computer' - the Antikythera Mechanism.
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More than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia

More than 7,500-year-old fish traps found in Russia | Science News | Scoop.it
A team of international archeologists, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has documented a series of more than 7,500-year-old fish seines and traps near Moscow.
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Human, artificial intelligence join forces to pinpoint fossil locations

Human, artificial intelligence join forces to pinpoint fossil locations | Science News | Scoop.it
Traditionally, fossil-hunters often could only make educated guesses as to where fossils lie. The rest lay with chance. But thanks to a new software model, fossil-hunters' reliance on luck when finding fossils may be diminishing.
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Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech

Early Humans Handed Down Toolmaking Tech | Science News | Scoop.it

Early humans may not have needed to continuously reinvent the proverbial wheel. A newly discovered cache of stone tools representing 11,000 years of human habitation suggests that perhaps human innovations didn't flicker in and out of early human history as once suspected, driven into obscurity by external pressures such as climate change. Instead, researchers suggest, at least some ancient humans apparently managed to pass an innovative type of stone tool down to their descendants.

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[VIDEO] Ancient Inventions

[VIDEO] Ancient Inventions | Science News | Scoop.it
Students move out of the classroom and into the lab to turn ancient inventions they have been studying about into real-life working mechanisms.
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First look at the face of a woman dead for 2000 years

First look at the face of a woman dead for 2000 years | Science News | Scoop.it
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Researchers uncover 8,000 years of human history hidden in the Middle East

Researchers uncover 8,000 years of human history hidden in the Middle East | Science News | Scoop.it
How do you map the expansion of Earth's earliest civilizations? For years, researchers have tackled this daunting task on a settlement-by-settlement basis, searching for clues in mounds of earth throughout the Middle East.
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Seeing beneath Stonehenge revealed

Seeing beneath Stonehenge revealed | Science News | Scoop.it
Two new 21st century inventions are helping us to understand and visit the wonders of Stonehenge from the comfort of our own homes...
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