Monday, December 20, 2021

Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220,000 years

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Sir David Attenborough with some of the mammoth bones found in the gravel quarry near Swindon. Photograph: Julian Schwanitz/BBC/Windfall Fil...

Neanderthals Changed Ecosystems 125,000 Years Ago – Were Not “Primal Hippies

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Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Get up close to Skara Brae with new 3D model of 5,000-year-old settlement

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The interior of House Seven at Skara Brae. Although this structure has been closed to the public since 2006, the new 3D model allows virtual...

The objects that help us understand Stonehenge

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Bronze Age sun pendant, 1000–800BC © The Trustees of the British Museum The British Museum’s major Stonehenge exhibition sees over 430 objec...

Early Humans May Have Transformed Their Surroundings

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(Leiden University) LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—UPI reports that hundreds of butchered animal bones, some 20,000 stone artifacts, and evidence o...

Neanderthals, the Original Gardeners, Intentionally Altered the Landscape as Much as 125,000 Years Ago, a Study Finds

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Archaeological site at Neumark-Nord in Germany. Courtesy Wil Roebroeks, Leiden University. Hunter-gatherers were making changes to the ecosy...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Spectacular 3D Video Depicts Ancient Athens as Never Seen Before

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A realistic reconstruction of ancient Athens. Credit: Ancient Athens 3D A spectacular 3D video reconstruction of ancient Athens in the late ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

At least 2 hominin species lived at Laetoli site 3.6 million years ago

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A human relative left these five tracks in a 3.6 million-year-old layer of sediment at the Laetoli Fossil site in Tanzania. The first eviden...
Monday, November 15, 2021

12 Types Of Extinct Human Species And How They Differ

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Today, Homo sapiens are the only type of humans on Earth. However, we modern humans are just the most recent of many other human species tha...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

A Danish man found buried treasure from the Iron Age using a metal detector, just hours after turning it on for the first time

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  Gold medallions, coins, and jewelry comprise an Iron Age hoard that a rookie metal detectorist recently discovered in Denmark. Conservat...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Whence the White Horse of Uffington?

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  The White Horse of Uffington, a spectacular chalk figure on an English hillside, challenges the very idea of “heritage” as an unbroken l...

Was 536 AD the worst year in history?

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  Archaeologists working in Bacho Kiro Cave earlier this year. Image: Tsenka Tsanova, MPI-EVA Leipzig, License: CC-BY-SA 2.0 Europe was con...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Spanish cave art was made by Neanderthals, study confirms

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  . A general view (left), medium close-up (middle) and extreme close up of a partly coloured stalagmite tower in the Spanish cave of Ardale...

Long-Lost Fragment of Stonehenge Gives Unprecedented Glimpse Inside Ancient Monument

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Sample of the core from Stone 58 (British Geological Survey) "We have CT-scanned the rock, zapped it with X-rays, looked at it under va...

New findings unveil a missing piece of human prehistory

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IMAGE: GEOGRAPHICAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF NEWLY SAMPLED INDIVIDUALS A joint research team led by Prof. FU Qiaomei from the Institute ...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Why could Stonehenge be stripped of world heritage site status?

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Unesco says Stonehenge will be put on its danger list unless plans for the A303 road tunnel are changed. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images...
Wednesday, July 21, 2021

The final meal of the famous 'bog man' revealed: Tollund Man feasted on porridge and fish before being killed as a ritual sacrifice 2,400 years ago, study reveals

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The amazingly well-preserved head of the Tollund Man - a man who lived during the 4th century BC Tollund Man's gut contents had been ana...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Broxmouth Hillfort: Study reveals clues ancient people kept loved-ones mundane keepsakes

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One of the graves at the site Pic: Broxmouth Project Archive  They were a people who lived almost two thousand years ago, who would have bee...

Scientists found fossils from a new species of human that’s 130,000 years old

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Scientists from Israel stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while studying fossilized pieces of bone dug up near a cement plant. The fragme...

Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution

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Chinese researchers have called the skull, found in Harbin in the north, Homo longi, or ‘Dragon man’, but other experts are more cautious ab...