Hervé Bocherens says his colleagues find his research methods a little "crude." He dissolves 30,000-year-old animal bones in hydrochloric acid strong enough to burn through metal, soaks the bone ...
In 1879, a landowner and amateur archaeologist named Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola ventured into a newly discovered cave system in northern Spain. Hoping to find prehistoric tools, he kept his eyes fixed ...