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Stone Age babies buried with love By Roger Highfield Last Updated: 1:28am GMT 16/11/2006 The image of Stone Age man as a heartless brute will have to be revised after the discovery of an ancient grave where babies had been carefully buried and ritually decorated. Although childhood mortality may well have been high more than 20 millennia ago, the use of red ochre, as well as the grave gifts — a chain of ivory beads — shows that babies were even then considered full members of society. The burials in Krems-Wachtberg in Lower Austria are the first findings of such...

Footprints of Paleothic Man Found on Cheju Island By Han Eun-jung Footprints of a Paleolithic man, the first to be found in Asia, and fossilized animal tracks dating back to about 50,000 years ago were discovered on Cheju Island, the Cultural Properties Administration said at a press briefing in Seoul on Friday. More than 100 footprints of ancient man and thousands of horse, elephant, bird and deer fossil tracks were found in Namcheju-gun on the southern island province of Cheju and along the shores of the island's Andok-myon. The fossils were discovered by Professor Kim Jung-yul of the Korean National...