A study by Professor Ella Been and Dr. Omry Barzilai sheds new light on the burial practices of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the Levant region during the Middle Paleolithic, revealing both similarities and differences in how these two species treated their dead.
A new study suggests that the wheel may have been invented by copper miners in the Carpathian Mountains around 3900 B.C., using techniques from structural mechanics to trace the evolution of the wheel and axle.
