A team of researchers have uncovered some fascinating new data about the land use practices of people who lived deep in the Amazon rainforest – and it shows the effect on the environment humans were having more than 3,500 years ago!

Researchers are getting closer to solving the mystery of a girl buried with a bird skull in her mouth in a Polish cave.

They are calling her Elba the Shepherdess. She is 9,300 years old, and her face has just been reconstructed with modern science. She was found in a deep cave together with three wild cows or aurochs. But was she actually a shepherdess? https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/elba-shepherdess-0015422