Science magazine recently covered the tale archaeologists uncovered about one of the earliest known settlers of Borneo, a young hunter-gatherer who had an injured foot amputated …… Read the rest “Amputation 31,000 years ago, among the prehistoric artists of Borneo.”
This is a drum. Or a gong. Or maybe a throne. Or a model of the universe with little solar disks around the edge.
It was found in a bog near Balkåkra, Sweden, in 1847, but was made sometime during… Read the rest “Science Art: Balkåkra Ritual Object, Olof Sörling, 1917.”
The discovery, as Science News explains, is rewriting the evolution of the first cities. Instead of gradually growing inside walled enclosures around a temple, the Mesopotamian cities… Read the rest “Drone photos reveal ancient Mesopotamian island suburbs.”
Science News reports on the discovery of charred dung in Syria that has rewritten history, pushing back the date of the oldest domesticated animals by 2,000 years:
… Read the rest “Humans domesticated animals way earlier than we thought – about 13,000 years ago at least.”“We know today that dung
Science magazine reveals the single gene change that gave Homo sapiens sapiens the edge in brain matter over Homo sapiens neanderthalensis:
… Read the rest “Genetic finding shows how modern humans grew more brain cells than Neanderthals.”[Wieland Huttner, a Max Planck Institute neurobiologist,]
The Guardian reports on a crisis for Spanish farmers and water utilities that has turned into a boon for archaeologists – and tourists – as plummeting reservoir levels reveal… Read the rest “Sunken megaliths revealed by Spanish drought.”
PhysOrg looks at the remains of what UT Austin researchers have determined was a 37,000-year-old mammoth hunt in New Mexico, a place where scientists didn’t think humans existed… Read the rest “Mammoth hunt pushes first North American settlers back by a few millennia.”
Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently than we thought, and much … Read the rest “Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.”
BBC reports on a study reassembling the genome of a man and woman preserved for centuries under the ash of Pompeii, and what the ancient DNA can teach us today:
… Read the rest “Reading the DNA from Pompeii”The two people were first discovered
IFL Science (among other outlets) is reporting on studies published in Nature and the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports that looked at the mummified remains of children sacrificed… Read the rest “Inca sacrifices were given ayahuasca in their final hours.”
Science News checks out the evidence for the oldest known skull surgery in America, a forehead-opening operation that took place between 3,000 and 5,000 years ago in what is now known as … Read the rest “A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama”
Hakai Magazine (via Smithsonian) shares some discoveries from the Bluefish Caves in the northern Yukon, where archaeologists have unearthed clues to a whole human society that flourished… Read the rest “The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.”
Archaeology Today has the news – heartwrenching to Austrians, joyous to Italians – that one of the world’s most famous figurines, the round-bodied Venus of Willendorf,… Read the rest “Venus of Willendorf actually not of Willdendorf – she’s Italian!”
Nature reports on the discovery of an unusually advanced settlement in East Asia. Around 40,000 years ago, when Denisovans, Neanderthals, and the very first Homo sapiens were replacing… Read the rest “Prehistoric pigment points to archaic brain trust.”
Science News takes us back 4,500 years to ancient Syria, where domesticated donkeys and wild asses called “hemippes” were bred together for war – as the earliest know… Read the rest “The first hybrid humans ever bred was a kunga.”
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