Abnormal ear bones are a hallmark of time spent underwater Ozgur Ayaydin/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
It鈥檚 a Stone Age mystery: why did one-third of the people living in an ancient village far from the sea develop a condition typically seen today in avid surfers?
There is no obvious answer 鈥 but the weird prevalence of 鈥渟urfer鈥檚 ear鈥 in the ancient community might shed new light on the way humans lived just before the farming revolution.
K枚rtik Tepe, a site in eastern Turkey, was first occupied between 12,400 and 11,250 years ago. This was a time of massive social change, when…
