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Two of the "Top 10 Best Finds" from Archaeology

"Meanwhile, a Stanford University team analyzed residues on three Natufian stone mortars unearthed roughly 150 miles west of Shubayqa 1, in Israel’s Raqefet Cave. They detected evidence that Natufians were brewing beer from wild wheat and barley 13,000 years ago, well before those grains were domesticated."

"The world’s oldest known drawing has been identified on a small stone flake recovered in South Africa’s Blombos Cave."  This find is about 73,000 years old.


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