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Small chips of flint, dropped while cutting tools were resharpened 300,000 years ago, provide evidence of how ancient humans worked on wood. The pieces were discovered at the Old Palaeolithic site in Schöningen, Lower Saxony. The research…

Research team examines 27 countries in Europe since the end of the Middle Ages - ability to deal with numbers crucial for economic developmentIn countries and regions of Europe where women married late, the economy has developed better…

Humans have used bear skins to protect themselves from cold weather for at least 300,000 years. This is suggested by traces of cuts on the metatarsal and finger bones of a cave bear, which were discovered at the Paleolithic site in…

The University of Tübingen is becoming increasingly popular with international students. As of mid-November, the university had a total of 4,165 students without a German passport, a new record. In the current winter semester, the…

An international team of researchers has discovered a previously unknown species of dinosaur in western Romania and named it after the place where it was found, Transylvania: Transylvanosaurus platycephalus lived around 70 million years…

The Hammerschmiede in the Allgäu, where the great ape Danuvius was found, is a unique treasure trove for paleontologists: over 140 fossil vertebrate species have already been recovered here. The way of life and the development of an…

The gold in objects from Troy, Poliochni - a settlement on the island of Lemnos, about 60 kilometers off Troy - and Mesopotamian Ur has the same geographic origin and was traded over long distances. This is the finding of an international…

The livelihood of one in three people on earth depends on livestock and pastoralism. Especially in dry areas, which make up more than 40 percent of the land area of ​​our planet, pastoralism is essential for survival.Despite this…

Not only in Germany, but in many countries around the world there is a shortage of teachers. For this reason, lateral and lateral entrants are often employed at schools who originally completed a different type of training than a classic…

The hand skeletons of women workers from the early days of industrialization reflect the diverse and changing activities of their everyday lives. In a new study, Dr. Alexandros Karakostis from the Institute for Scientific Archeology at…