Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Oldest Rune Stones in the World

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The Svingerud Stone is the oldest rune stone, created almost two thousand years ago There are many things that come into mind when thinking ...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Lasers Are Mapping Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Passages

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A laser scan of Cracknie souterrain, capturing every detail in 3D PHOTOGRAPH: AOC ARCHAEOLOGY In February 2022, Graeme Cavers and his team o...

Enigmatic Ale’s Stones – Sweden’s Megalithic Ship-Like Formation

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  Ales stones, Hesten and others (Valleberga 20:1). Image credit: Jorchr - CC BY-SA 4.0 Myths, legends, and mystery surround this fascinatin...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Found the world's oldest rune stone

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Photo: Alexis Pantos/KHM, UiO. During the first few centuries of the Common Era, during the period that archaeologists call the Roman Iron A...

Norway reveals stone tablet providing clues to origins of Western writing

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The ancient rune stone found by Norwegian researchers is believed to be between 1,800 and 2,000 years old. It was found buried beneath a lat...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Wishing well used for Bronze Age 'cult rituals' discovered in Bavaria

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The wooden wishing well discovered by archaeologists in Bavaria, Germany. (Image credit: The Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection) ...

Brutality of prehistoric life revealed by Europe’s bog bodies

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At Alken Enge in Denmark, the remains of at least 380 individuals were deposited in a wetland almost 2,000 years ago. In 1984, a peat cutter...

First of its kind study identifies how humans lost their body hair

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Humans appear to have the genes for a full coat of body hair, but evolution has disabled them,  scientists at University of Utah Health and ...

Svante Pääbo: ‘It’s maybe time to rethink our idea of Neanderthals’

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Svante Pääbo says becoming a Nobel laureate has been ‘a burden … but a pleasant burden’. Photograph: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images A greyish n...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Winter solstice: Explore these new 3D scans of passage tomb megalithic art

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  A TREASURE TROVE of megalithic art imagery from a recently uncovered passage tomb is being released to mark the winter solstice. The Dowth...

Video: Marking the winter solstice at Maeshowe chambered cairn

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With its south-westerly facing entrance,perhaps Maeshowe’s best known attribute is its  orientation towards the setting sun around midwinter...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Bog Body Discovered in Denmark

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STENLØSE, DENMARK—Live Science reports that human and animal bones, as well as an unpolished flint ax head, were recovered from what was onc...

U.K. Archaeologists Say That Ancient Tools Discovered Around Stonehenge Point to a More Advanced Society Than Previously Known

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Archaeologists at the University of Leicester have just re-examined five 4,000-year-old tools like flint cups and Neolithic axes that have p...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Sex with humans – not climate change, disease or war – spelled the end for Neanderthals, scientists believe

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They began to encounter each other around 60,000 years ago across Europe and Asia but within 20,000 years, Neanderthals had died out The dem...

Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins

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Scientific study of human evolution historically reassured us of a comforting order to things. It has painted humans as as cleverer, more in...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Norwich timber henge burnt in Neolithic winter solstice excavated

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The late Neolithic to Bronze Age monument is close to many other prehistoric sites, including burial barrows and mines A 5,000-year-old timb...

500,000-Year-Old Tools In Polish Cave May Have Belonged To Extinct Hominid Species

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Flint artifacts from the Tunel Wielki cave, made half a million years ago possibly by Homo heildelbergensis. Image credit: M. Kot The findin...

Ancient DNA reveals the social lives of the oldest known family group

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Neanderthal is an insult still lobbed about to suggest someone is dim-witted and out of touch. The more we learn about our Stone Age cousins...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Arab DNA Shows Route of Early Human Migration from Africa

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Recent studies on Arab DNA confirmed what researchers have believed for many years, but hadn’t been able to prove definitively. Testing sugg...

The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

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The Eurasian steppes reach from the Ukraine in Europe to Mongolia and China. Over the past 5000 years, these flat grasslands were thought to...