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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Tens of thousands of stone tools from Ksâr ‘Akil had been sitting for decades, mostly unstudied, in wooden boxes in Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography.

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