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Nearly 60,000 Color Photos Of the Early 20th Century Are Now Free To Use These would be perfect for your next Pinterest board, presentation, or even a big inspo board for your novel (if you’re creating one).The “Archives of the Planet,” is a compilation of nearly 60,000 photos, free to use.  Released by the Albert Kahn departmental museum in France, this was move is actually part of a project to ensure the preservation of the world’s visual history. The Archives were started in 1908 by Albert Khan, a French banker that wanted to get photographs of humans around the world. He decided to hire 12 photographers to visit 50 countries and compiled all the photos in this collection. Through this project, he hoped that it would result in “a sort of photographic inventory of the surface of the globe, occupied and fitted out by man, as it appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.”  The Archives have a total of 25,000 color photos of early 20th-century life and 34,000 other images. For those interested in getting these photos, you can download almost 80% of the collection in full resolution through the museum’s Image Portal. If you’d like high-resolution versions of any of the photographs, the establishment states that they will need to create a profile with the website before accessing them. Image credit: Archives of the Planet #archives #images #collection #France #ArchivesofthePlanet #AlbertKhan #museums 

Europe's First Homo sapiens? Evidence of 54,000-Year-Old Tooth and Tool Found in a French CaveIt turns out that the first Homo sapiens to reside in Europe lived in southern France before they mysteriously disappeared. Archeologists discovered stone tools and a child’s tooth that pointed to the existence of these humans living in a rock shelter some 54,000 years ago. According to the researchers, the first set of humans, way before the Neanderthals, were estimated to have lived in the location for a few decades.The discovery pre-dates the earliest known evidence of the species in the continent by 10,000 years. Most of the tools resemble ‘Mousterian technology,’ artifacts that are found at Neanderthal sites across Eurasia. Other tools contained small blades that are more typical of early Homo sapiens technology. While this evidence can point to the existence of an earlier set of human beings in Europe, some researchers remain unconvinced.  “I find the evidence less than convincing,” said William Banks, a paleolithic archeologist at the French national research agency CNRS and the University of Bordeaux.image credit: Ludovic Slimak; Laure Metz #archaeology #France #HomoSapiens#stonetools