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  Excavations in southern Siberia's Uyuk Valley have revealed preserved plant remains and human tissue linked to ancient nomadic Scythians. The discoveries push back the timeline of psychoactive cannabis consumption by at least 300 years beyond earlier records from China. However, forensic toxicologists caution that environmental contamination in the burial could account for the chemical traces found on the human remains.

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  Geological investigations have hit an unexpected hurdle in determining precisely where prehistoric builders quarried the central monument slab. Despite recent mineral analyses ruling out traditional Welsh locations and pointing hundreds of kilometres north, rigorous field comparisons failed to pinpoint an exact extraction site. This leaves archaeologists still searching for the concrete geographic pathway of the massive prehistoric monolith.

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