Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Tiny Bead, Found In Bulgaria, Is World's Oldest Gold

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Every year, we discover something about our history on the planet through excavations around the world. In one such excavation, archaeologis...

Researchers discover what triggered Earth's last ice age

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At the beginning of the last ice, local mountain glaciers grew and formed large ice sheets, like the one seen here. (CREDIT: Creative Common...

The puzzle of Neanderthal aesthetics

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Surprising new insights into the minds of this extinct human species suggest they may have been far more cultured than their outdated brutis...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Neanderthals Built Boats And Sailed 100,000 Years Ago – Long Before Modern Humans

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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excelle...

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Necropolis Near Parisian Train Station

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Researchers uncovered 50 burials dated to roughly the second century C.E. © Camille Colonna / INRAP Residents of Lutetia buried their dead a...
Sunday, April 23, 2023

Who Were the Neanderthals & Why Are They Important to Modern Humans?

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Since their discovery in 1856, the Neanderthals have been stereotyped as brutish characters, devoid of the complexities that make modern hum...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Archaeologists identify a Palaeolithic bone tool workshop in Spanish cave

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Image Credit : Antiquity A study of a partition made from rocks in the El Mirón Cave has led to archaeologists identifying it as a Palaeolit...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes 39,000 years ago

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This piece of bone from 39,600 years ago has multiple puncture marks on it that seem to have been made by puncturing leather An analysis of ...

People were using psychedelic drugs in Bronze Age Europe, study finds

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Es Càrritx is a grotto on Minorca, an island off the coast of eastern Spain, that's home to a Bronze Age burial site. (Research Group in...

Who Was Ötzi the Iceman?

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(Credit:Zigres/Shutterstock) Ötzi the Iceman is the oldest mummy ever found. Learn what scientists now know about the famous ancient human. ...

The Antikythera Mechanism: the mysterious ancient machine that should not exist?

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 The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic artifacts from ancient Greece. This ancient machine, discovered in t...
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Evidence of drug use during Bronze Age ritual ceremonies has been discovered in Europe for the first time

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View of the entrance of Es Càrritx (upper left); the deposit of Chamber 5 with the tubes containing the human hair placed at the center (upp...
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...