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Reindeer fur would have helped historical people bear the local weather of the closing glacial most Esteban De Armas/Shutterstock An open-air web site in Austria occupied via people right through the coldest a part of the closing glacial duration could have been devoted to looking reindeer for pelts, appearing how …

The now-extinct Tocharian language on a scrap of parchment Sakkmesterke/Alamy ProtoLaura Spinney (HarperCollins (UK) Bloomsbury Publishing (US, 13 May)) A brand new ebook through Laura Spinney is relatively tantalisingly known as Proto, begging the query: proto-what? Prototype, the earliest model of a era? Protoplasm, the stuff of our cells? Or even protoplanet, …