Battling nomads earned you buckets of trouble around 2,500 B.C., reports an international archeology team. Scars too.

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Paleontologists said it was the first time the complete skull of an ape of that age has been found
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetec ... -ancient-ape-volcano.html

University of California, San Diego students will be going to Jordan soon to take part in an archaeological dig that's decidely futuristic:

They believe are traces of the five ships that British privateer Henry Morgan lost off the coast of Panama in 1671.

Tell Qarqur was occupied for about 10,000 years, between 8,500 B.C. and A.D. 1350.