Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Evidence for world’s first horse riders found in eastern Europe, dating back nearly 5,000 years

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Grave of a horse rider discovered in Malomirovo, Bulgaria. Credit: Michał Podsiadło. Using horses to get around was a critical juncture for ...

Details Of Ice Age Hunter-gatherers Revealed

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Prehistoric hunters and gatherers from various archaeological societies had their genomes studied. The arrival of Ice Age hunter-gatherers i...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Dwarfie Stane: Mysterious 5,000-Year-Old Rock-Cut Tomb On Dark Enchanted Island Of Hoy, Scotland

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The Dwarfie Stane with the entrance to the tomb. Credit: Grovel - CC BY 3.0 A. Sutherland- AncientPages.com - The "Dwarfie Stane" ...

Modern Humans With Bows and Arrows Invaded France 54,000 Years Ago

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Reproduced arrowheads made using the same flint and shot from a bow, to compare fracturing with the points found in Grotte Mandrin. Experime...

Grave of Elite Bronze Age Brothers With Mystery Disease Discovered

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Photo of Tel Megiddo National Park in modern-day Israel. This was the site of the ancient city of Megiddo.  JAVAX/GETTY The bodies of two Br...

54,000-Year-Old Stone Points Are Oldest Signs of Bow and Arrow Use in Europe

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The site of Grotte Mandrin, in France Artifacts discovered in a rock shelter suggest Homo sapiens was launching stone projectiles in Europe ...

This Man Underwent Brain Surgery 3,500 Years Ago

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Two brothers’ remains were found buried together under the floorboards of their home. One had a hole in his skull consistent with surgery. K...

Centuries Before Stonehenge, This Settlement Housed the First European Stone Monument Builders

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Whether its Stonehenge, the pyramids, or a myriad of other ancient places, we’ve long been fascinated by impressive monuments from the dista...

Neanderthals spread diverse cultures across Eurasia (before we came along)

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This artist's conception shows how Neanderthals might have faced down the mammoth task of butchering a freshly-killed elephant. Two rece...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Stunning reconstruction reveals 'lonely boy' with deformed skull who died in cave in Norway 8,300 years ago

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Here we see a gif of a skull that gets muscles, eyes and finally hair and coloring added to it in 10 steps. It took Oscar Nilsson, a forensi...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Never-Before-Seen Minoan Artifacts Exhibited in Oxford Museum

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Minoan ladies women artifact Never-Before-See Minoan Artifacts Exhibited in Oxford’s Museum. Credit: ArchaiOptix / Wkimedia Commons CC BY-SA...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

Skegriedösen (Skegrie Dolmen) – 5,000-Year-Old Stone Chamber Tomb In Southern Sweden

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  Skegrie megalith grave in Skåne, Sweden. Image credit: Jorchr - CC BY-SA 3.0 Megalithic graves appeared more or less simultaneously in sou...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

Nearly 600 obsidian handaxes from 1.2 million years ago found in Ethiopia show early humans were smarter than we think

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Credit: FrankvandenBergh / iStock / Getty Images Plus A trove of nearly 600 obsidian handaxes, dating back at least 1.2 million years, has b...

Did Humanity Really Arise in One Place?

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San hunter-gatherers—descended from the oldest distinct lineage of Homo sapiens—are one of many communities helping to rewrite the story of ...

Neanderthals hunted enormous elephants that fed 100 people for a month

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The extinct straight-tusked elephant was even larger than modern African elephants, making it unclear if Neanderthal hunters could take one ...

Perception versus reality: Implications of elephant hunting by Neanderthals

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Reconstruction of Pleistocene hominins exploiting an elephant. Neanderthals hunted elephants at Neumark-Nord 1 (Germany), a finding that has...
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...