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The article analyzes the value of rebuilding Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France after it was damaged by fire on April 15, 2019. Topics discussed are ethical, cultural and historical significance of preserving Notre-Dame, the tension between the preservation, rebuilding and experience of an original piece of cultural heritage, authenticity of the replica of the Palaeolithic cave painting "Chauvet," and the need to balance aesthetic demands against contemporary building codes.

The article focuses on the bookshelves of the ancient city of Ebla which contained cuneiform tablet preserved in the fire that devastated the city in 2,300 BCE. It states that the bookshelves were unearthed by a team of archaeologists led by Paolo Matthiae during the 1975 excavations. It also mentions that translations of these tablets offer clues about everyday life in the city.

This article discusses the relationship between human jaw structure and the ability to make certain sounds, namely "f" and "v" sounds. The author comments on the possible influences of human evolution on linguistic change, usage, pronunciation, and meaning. She cites paleoanthropological, biomechanical, ethnological, and historical linguistic research related to this topic.

The article focuses on the cave Arene Candide located in Italy's northwestern Liguria region. Topics include a Paleolithic burial site near the cave entrance, the excavation work of archaeologist Vitale Sparacello of the University of Bordeaux, and the research being organized by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage in Liguria, the Ligurian Archaeological Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Finale, and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in Florence.

Although archaeology is a discipline traditionally associated with shovels, screens, and bags of artifacts, archaeologists are making more effective use of GIS to create precise maps of both small and [...]

The article focuses on possible recent studies and 3-D modeling of the traces and explored their way through Grotta della Basura in the Liguria region of northern Italy and sort of Paleolithic finger painting and cave's narrow chambers.

The article discusses the possible beginning of the domestication of wild boars approximately 5,000 years ago in Jutland Peninsula, Denmark, referencing research finding that humans fed wild boars fish and other marine animals.

The article reports that 95 human bodies have been discovered in an unmarked cemetery in Sugar Land, Texas that was at a site where prisoners were forced to provide agricultural labor as part of the convict-lease system.

The article offers information related Neanderthals or Neandertals, a species or subspecies of archaic human, in the genus Homo, which became extinct around 40,000 years ago.

This article discusses the famous fossil, known as Lucy. It tackles the reason behind the fame of the hominid Lucy, the discovery of Lucy during a routine fossil survey in Afar, Ethiopia, the introduction of Lucy to the world, the study of Lucy by geologists and paleoanthropologists, and the cultural connection between fossil and audience.