Discovering the Oldest Man-made Structures on Earth

75,000 years ago early humans built a stone calendar that predates all other man-made structures found to date. This ‘African Stonehenge’ has for the first time created a link to the countless other stone ruins in southern Africa and suggests that these ruins are much older than we thought. The complex that links Waterval Boven, Machadodorp, Carolina and Dullstroom, covers an area larger then modern-day Johannesburg.
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Indonesias Homo floresiensis is not human ancestor

In a an analysis of the size, shape and asymmetry of the cranium of Homo floresiensis, Karen Baab, Ph.D., a researcher in the Department of Anatomical Scienes at Stony Brook University, and colleagues conclude that the fossil, found in Indonesia in 2003 and known as the “Hobbit,” is not human.
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Massive hoard of prehistoric gold coins found

For 2,000 years, this enormous fortune lay undisturbed in the ground where it had been left as a gift to the gods. The 824 gold coins were minted by the deeply-religious Iceni tribe, made famous by the warrior queen Boadicea.
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Stonehenge twin found in Lake Michigan

In 2007, Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. One stone outside the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon—an elephant-like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago. » Read more