User:Abyssal/Prehistory of Asia/DYK/18
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- ...that in the mid-fourth millennium BC, at the "Eye Temple" at Nagar in northeastern Syria, hundreds of "eye idol" figurines with large watchful eyes were added to the very mortar used to build the temple?
- ... that the Kırklareli Museum in Turkey exhibits 76 taxidermied species including extinct and endangered species?
- ... that the extinct crocodile Rimasuchus often preyed on large mammals, including early humans?
- ... that a single spoon-shaped lower jaw belonging to the goniopholidid crocodyliform Sunosuchus is the most well preserved fossil found from the Phu Kradung Formation in Thailand?
- ... that Manot 1, a skull discovered in the Manot Cave in Israel, provides evidence that modern humans lived side-by-side with Neanderthals?