The recent discovery of an enormous ring of cylinder-like pits, each approximately five meters deep and 10 meters in diameter (16.5 by 33 ft), found to surround the henge enclosure of Durrington Walls in southern England
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Mumbwa Caves: Prehistoric Site in Zambia Sheds Light on Ancient Humans
... the late Pleistocene period, but the Mumbwa Caves in Zambia are archaeologically significant and have helped ... during the European colonization of the territory, when Zambia was still Northern Rhodesia . A range of artifacts ... They came to dominate the region which later became Zambia. It was at about this time that the caves were ...
Ed Whelan - 18/03/2019 - 00:45
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The Enigma of the Prehistoric Skulls with Bullet-Like Holes
... for metal ore deposits in the limestone caves of Kabwe, Zambia, when he found an ancient skull that dated back to ... Broken Hill/Kabwe skull from the Museum in Livingstone, Zambia, with the ‘bullet hole’ on he left. Image source . ...
aprilholloway - 16/08/2014 - 14:27
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Three Different Human-like Species Lived Concurrently in Ancient Africa
... provided dating on a skull found in a quarry at Kabwe, Zambia, in 1921, ‘the Broken Hill skull’. More advanced ... in Morocco and Ethiopia. The Broken Hill skull from Zambia is younger than scientists previously suspected. ( ...
ashley cowie - 03/04/2020 - 18:52
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Mokele-mbembe: The Monster of the Congo River
... the upper reaches of the Congo River basin, i.e. Congo, Zambia, and Cameroon, as well as in Lake Tele (in the ... found in the legends of the natives living in present day Zambia, and is rumored to inhabit the Lake Bangweulu region. ...
dhwty - 18/09/2019 - 19:36
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Why Expressive Brows Might Have Mattered in Human Evolution
... 125-300 ka; lead-zinc mine at Broken Hill, Kabwe, central Zambia. ( CC BY 2.0 ) According to the researchers, our ...
ancient-origins - 18/04/2018 - 01:48
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The Cwezi: Ancient Race of Mystical People and the Modern-Day Cwezi Cult Accused of Black Magic
... the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia and Malawi from 10,000 BC to 1,500 AD. The empire ...
Sarah P Young - 01/07/2019 - 14:03
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Half A Million Dollar Mask With Otherworldly Origins
Deep in the Congo, at the darkest moment within a three-day long drug enhanced ritual, this mask is revealed to initiates as representing a being from another dimension, a collision of man, animal and spirit. And this one just sold for 500,000 dollars!
ashley cowie - 26/03/2017 - 18:56
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