These kiss me rass people 😄

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518516-the-first-apes-to-walk-upright-may-have-evolved-in-europe/

The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe

Reprinted in Popular Mechanics

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70526396/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-the-oldest-form-of-writingever/

sorry Mesopotamia, Germany beat you to it. 🙄

Now, scientists have found evidence that around 40,000 years ago, early Homo sapiens hunter-gatherers in what is now Germany developed a proto-writing system that involved scratching symbols onto small objects made of bone, antler, and ivory.

Humans had already been carving images into cave walls and portable objects for hundreds of thousands of years by then. What made the symbols on the figurines unique was that they were surprisingly complex, at the level of the first protocuneiform that later appeared in Mesopotamia.

Medical geniuses

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/neanderthal-birch-tar-antibiotic/

Neanderthals May Have Used the World’s First Antibiotic 50,000 Years Ago

Evidence suggests Neanderthals knew some plants could help them and birch tar seems to be on that list.