snippet “ The settlement unearthed at Cap d'Erquy comprises approximately twenty circular dwellings strategically positioned around a central plaza. Based on archaeological assessments, it is estimated that this village was inhabited by a Gallic community between the 8th and 5th centuries B.C....
Snippet: “A 2,000-year-old knife with a runic inscription has been found near Odense on the island of Funen. The five engraved runes on the knife are the oldest ever discovered in Denmark…...
Snippet: "We have reviewed the archival material from the original excavations and undertaken further test excavations to confirm some of the findings. We argue that the site of Tainiaro was most likely, although not certainly, a large Stone Age cemetery of the fifth millennium BC....
Snippet “ The research team led by the Nagoya University Museum and Graduate School of Environmental Studies in Japan believe Paleolithic humans understood which rocks were appropriate for making tools and, therefore, intentionally searched for them. According to their hypothesis, Paleolithic humans intentionally searched for...
Full text (but there are some more pics if you click in): “Ancient animals were walking around on bird-like feet over 210 million years ago, according to a new study....
“Archaeologists have discovered dozens of unique artifacts that span more than 7,000 years in melting ice patches in British Columbia's Mount Edziza Provincial Park, Canada....
“ How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, our new study analyzes two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000 years to conclude that our ancestors came from Eastern Europe and migrated westwards....
“Researchers suggest that strange blobs near the center of the Earth are remnants of an ancient planet that violently collided with Earth billions of years ago in the same giant impact that created our Moon.”...
“A new analysis of the bones and muscles in ancient fish gives new clues about how the shoulder evolved in animals – including us.”...
“The world's oldest human statue has been unearthed in Karahan Tepe, Turkey. The 7.5-foot-tall statue is estimated to be about 11,000 years and depicts a man clutching his penis with both hands…...
Archaeologists working in the western part of Racibórz, called Studzienna, Poland, have unearthed stone tools that are 130,000 years old, or possibly even older.
“Despite numerous studies, many questions still remain as to the origin of Indo-European: where was the original Indo-European language spoken in prehistoric times? How long ago did this language group emerge? How did it spread across Eurasia?…...
Did ancient Romans invent unbreakable glass? If they did, their secrets would be long lost because the Roman Emperor Tiberius beheaded the inventor of flexible glass. Whether the story is just a myth or there is some truth behind it, it is impossible to say. The Pax Romana (‘Roman Peace’) was a period of relative peace and...
“An international team of scientists have discovered a huge spike in radiocarbon levels 14,300 years ago by analyzing ancient tree-rings found in the French Alps. The radiocarbon spike was caused by a massive solar storm, the biggest ever identified.”
While investigating a site at the southern edge of the Nefud desert in Saudia Arabia, archaeologists discovered remarkable ancient life-sized engravings of extinct camel species.
Scientists are puzzled by 5,000-year-old bear bones found on the Unalaska and Amaknak Islands in the Aleutians, Alaska. The ancient bones have been a decades-old mystery due to the fact that bears have never lived on those islands.
You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years. The history of abortion is often told as a legal one, yet abortion has continued regardless of, perhaps even in spite of,...
Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival.
There are a significant number of Anglo-Saxon burials where the estimated anatomical sex of the skeleton does not align with the gender implied by the items they were buried with.
Interpersonal violence was a consistent part of life in ancient hunter-gatherer communities on the Atacama Desert coast of northern Chile, according to a new study.
Once, a long time ago, there was a poet and a warrior. His name was Grette the Strong (Grettir Ásmundarson, an Icelandic outlaw). His superpower was widely known even among the strongest berserkers.
While searching for a missing gold ring with a metal detector, the family in Norway found, to their big surprise, something entirely different in their garden on the island of Jomfruland.
Scientists have discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in southern Europe.
The prosperous civilization of the Minoans represented one of the oldest cultures of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean area and the first major Aegean civilization comparable in its achievements to the older ones, such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia.
Snippet “ The researchers use the "remarkable evidence" to tell a compelling story from 45,000–50,000 years ago with new detail: how the first humans migrated across Europe and Asia....
