February 9, 2025

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Science news this week: Lucy’s legs and historical rock artwork

Science news this week: Lucy’s legs and historical rock artwork

This 7 days in science news we pushed our knowledge of human evolution even additional again with the discovery of human shin bone fragments in the “Cave of the Monkeys.” Uncovered deep within just a cave in Laos, it implies Homo sapiens arrived in Southeast Asia as early as 86,000 decades back. We also learnt that “Lucy,” the 3.2 million-calendar year-outdated human ancestor, had huge leg muscular tissues to stand up straight and climb trees. The locating bolsters a developing consensus among the scientists that Australopithecus afarensis — the extinct species to which Lucy belongs — walked erect fairly than with a chimpanzee-like, crouching waddle.

In much much more current human heritage — all-around 3,000 a long time back to be precise — we unearthed a extensive cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds around Stonehenge and an “octagonal” sword so effectively preserved it shines. We may also have lastly worked out what was staying depicted in some mysterious rock art painted by Aboriginal persons.

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