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The World’s Oldest Home Unearthed in South Africa
The findings at Wonderwerk Cave are huge for paleoanthropology, which seeks to understand human evolution.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She is primarily concerned with the experiences of making and engaging with art, and researching the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
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Santa Fe Gets an Art Space Dedicated to Virtual and New Media Art
The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation opened the 3,500-square-foot space with exhibitions spanning the 18th to the 21st centuries.
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$1,000 Emergency Grants for NYC Artists With Disabilities
Applications for the New York Foundation for the Arts grant open May 4.
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Stone-age Crystals Challenge Conceptions of Where Civilizations Emerged in Africa
The discovery in the Kalahari Desert disrupts the prevailing notion that human origins were linked to coastal environments.
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Statue of Nisqually Environmentalist and Tribal Leader Will Represent Washington at US Capitol
Billy Frank Jr. spent his life examining and advocating on behalf of treaty rights and environmental protections.
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Raw Portraits of UK Village Win Top Prize at Sony World Photography Awards
Craig Easton collaborated with writer Abdul Aziz Hafiz to challenge depictions of a small community in Lancashire as “the most segregated in Britain.”
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See a 4,000-Year-Old 3D Map of France
Researchers believe the Bronze Age stone bears a crude map of an area in France’s Brittany region.
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Experience a Scottish Concert as It Would Have Sounded in 1512
Researchers reproduced the acoustics of a defunct chapel at Linlithgow Palace during an Easter Mass performance.
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Mississippi Returns Stolen Remains of Chickasaw People in States Largest Repatriation
It is the largest return of stolen Native American antiquities in the state’s history.
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Ancient Antikythera Mechanism, the “World’s First Computer,” Is Reconstructed
The device, which is thought to predict planets’ movement, was found in the sea in 1901, salvaged from a wrecked merchant ship.
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Mural of Knife-Wielding Spider God Found on 3,200-year-old Temple in Peru
The spider is thought to be associated with rain and fertility rituals that might have taken place in the shrine and its attendant complex of buildings.
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Man Loses World’s Largest Digital Art Collection After He Can’t Remember His Password
The $200 million collection include a lesser Beeple and a series of early-net fractals.