Quaternary

Human traces dating back 14,000 years found in İzmir

Archaeological excavations carried out in a cave in the Dikili district of İzmir have unearthed 14,000-year-old stone tools and bones from the Late Paleolithic (Epipalaeolithic) period.

Turkish and German scientists, who carried out the works in the area, revealed that the cave was also used as a cult center dedicated to the mother goddess Kybele.

Humans walked and hunted on the Arctic 10,000 years earlier than initially believed

Plenty of previous evidence shows that humans hunted mammoths during the late Pleistocene, with some studies arguing that our species hastened the mammoths’ extinction.

 

However, a Siberian discovery shows a mammoth hunt high in the Arctic around 45,000 years ago, almost ten millennia before humans were thought to have walked that area.

 

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