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Prehistoric

The Mauer 1 jawbone

Heidelberg, Germany

The Mauer 1 Jawbone

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

Prehistoric hand prints in a cave in Maros.

Bantimurung, Indonesia

Prehistoric Cave Art of Maros Pangkep

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Llandudno, Wales

The Great Orme Copper Mines

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

The Osmington White Horse, which depicts King George III, is the only carving to feature both horse and human.

England’s Centuries-Old Fascination With Carving Giant Horses Into Hillsides

The country's unbridled enthusiasm for the trend even inspired the creation of the term “leucippotomy.”

Kerry Wolfe July 20, 2017

A misty day at Mousa Broch

Sandwick, Scotland

Broch of Mousa

A remarkably well preserved tower dating all the way back to the Iron Age.

The strange structures are made of oxides of silicon and aluminum.

Puerto de Mazarrón, Spain

Erosiones de Bolnuevo

An enchanting landscape of ancient sandstone structures eroded into otherworldly shapes.

A coprolite, probably from a lungfish, with crushed bivalve shells, fish scales and fins.

Scientists Are Using X-Rays to Look Inside Fossilized Feces

The findings can help unravel prehistoric food webs.

Kelsey Kennedy June 6, 2017

There are hundreds of stenciled handprints in the caves.

La Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands)

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Looking out onto la Civita, the city center, from an ancient grotto in Sassi di Matera.

Sassi di Matera

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Wall painting at Kapova Cave (Russia). The caverns here are an area of acoustic research for Reznikoff.

With Archaeoacoustics, Researchers Listen for Clues to the Prehistoric Past

Investigators in this small, emerging field make noise in caves and measure resonance.

Emma Jacobs April 13, 2017

Caves at Crewell Crags

Worksop, England

Ice Age Cave Dwellings at Creswell Crags

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The Treasure

Treasure of Villena

A significant cache of prehistoric valuables is on display in an unassuming museum tucked inside a town hall.

Adam's Calendar from above

Ehlanzeni, South Africa

Adam's Calendar

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

A polished Petoskey Stone.

Harbor Springs, Michigan

Petoskey State Park

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Listen to the Surprisingly Goofy Voice of a Neanderthal

This goes way beyond grunts.

Molly McBride Jacobson September 16, 2016

Tetrapod Trackway

Tetrapod Trackway

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

Los Angeles, California

La Brea Tar Pits Dragonfly Fossils

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Stone Circle at Castlerigg with the mountain Blencathra in the background

Keswick, England

Castlerigg Stone Circle

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.