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Hadza Social Networks Similar to Our Own
Researchers mapped out the relationships among a remote group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania who live as humans did about 10,000 years ago and found that their social networks are very much like ours, even though they don't have Facebook or cell phones.
In other news of the ancient past, a new study suggests that the fossil feather whose discovery gave rise to the name Archaeopteryx more than 150 years ago was actually black.
According to paleontologists, nests for dinosaur eggs found in South Africa are 100 million years older than the former oldest known nest. They found 10 separate nests, each containing up to 34 eggs measuring 6-7cm. The fossils are of the prosauropod Massospondylus, a relative of the long-necked sauropods such as Diplodocus.
Brendan Foley's four-week survey of the waters around Crete last October is part of a long-term effort to catalogue large numbers of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. The grand prize would be a wreck from one of the most influential and enigmatic cultures of the ancient world--the Minoans, who ruled these seas more than 3,000 years ago.
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