Europe’s earliest bone tools found in Britain (BBC News 08/12/20)
Archaeologists say they’ve identified the earliest known bone tools in the European archaeological record.
The oldest known cremation in the near east dates to 7000 BC (Phys.org 08/12/20)
Ancient people in the Near East had begun the practice of intentionally cremating their dead by the beginning of the 7th millennium BC, according to a study published August 12, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Fanny Bocquentin of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and colleagues.