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Surprisingly Advanced Ancient Spear Tip Was Not Made by Modern Humans


Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

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Modern humans are the result of a genetic mixing event between two ancient populations that diverged around 1.5 million years ago. About 300,000 years ago, these groups came back together, with one group contributing 80% of the genetic makeup of modern humans and the other contributing 20%