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History and heritage in Northwest New Jersey Skylands: For over 12,000 years the Lenape and their ancestors occupied northwestern New Jersey. Who were they? How did they live? What kinds of tools did they make and use? Archaeologists have been trying to answer these questions for over a century.

The Old Copper Culture of the Great Lakes region in North America used copper tools for thousands of years and then went back to stone and bone tools. Why would they do that? Researchers have revised the historic timeline and revealed remarkable insights.

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Pre-Clovis is the name archaeologists have given to the oldest and now fairly well-established human occupations of the Americas.

Archaeologists led from the Max Planck Institute in Germany and colleagues analysed microliths, from the west Sri Lankan cave of Fa-Hein Lena, that date back to around 48,000-45,000 years ago.

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A study suggests Neanderthals were booted out of modern-day central Portugal by Homo sapiens about 5,000 years before researchers had previously ascertained