PhysOrg reports on a very old tool – does it count as a power tool? At any rate, it was made in Egypt thousands of years ago, rediscovered in the 1920s and then, on re-examination now, … Read the rest “A drill older than the pharoahs”
PhysOrg reports on archaeologists studying “bone modification,” a custom that seems to have been practiced among the first city-dwellers in southern China, who set up a … Read the rest “Skeleton sculpting of Stone-Age China”
PhysOrg shares evidence that Neolithic humans — the farmers of the Stone Age — were a lot more into eating each other than previously thought:
… Read the rest “Our cannibal grandparents”Francesc Marginedas at the Catalan
Anthropology.net looks at two 7th-century graves from different parts of England — Kent and Dorset — that prove African-descended people were living in England practically… Read the rest “DNA reveals Africans in medieval England.”
OK, not weasel but marten – which is close enough. Asahi Shimbun writes on the identity of a dragon mummy known as a Koryu held in the Shosoin Repository being finally revealed by X-ray… Read the rest “Dragon? Or weasel?”
This is an illustration from the British Museum’s Sutton Hoo Collection, studying the grave (and buried treasures) of a “Very Important Person” laid to rest in the … Read the rest “Science Art: Figures preparing the Sutton Hoo ship for burial, Craig Williams”
PhysOrg reports on an archaeological discovery in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which seems to have been the site of a 1,000-year-old Native American farming complex more than 330… Read the rest “Ancient megafarm found in Michigan.”
NPR reports on new findings for classical works of art. It’s pretty well known now that the stark white of ancient Greek marble statues was originally a lot more colorful when they … Read the rest “The smell of Venus de Milo”
Australia’s ABC reports on clues to a hidden past being found under the floor of a former immigration depot and women’s asylum, shedding new light on the lives of not-terribly-visible… Read the rest “Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards”
BBC has news of a discovery (yet to be confirmed, likely accurate) made using a combination of historical knowledge and ground-penetrating radar that shows how the technologically advanced… Read the rest “Roman battlefield (probably) discovered in the U.K.”
BBC reports on the accidental discovery of an immense, forgotten Mayan city in the Mexican jungle by an archaeology PhD student browsing the internet:
… Read the rest “Lost Mayan city found by accident… online.”Archaeologists found pyramids,
iScience peers back through the mists of time to the Viking Age, when a saga describes a dead man being tossed down a castle’s well. Now, archaeologists are pretty sure they’ve… Read the rest “They found the body of someone from the sagas.”
CNN has reported on prehistoric remains found in North Africa that reveal more evidence that our primordial ancestors didn’t really eat a meat-heavy diet, but got their protein … Read the rest “The real “paleo diet” was mostly vegetarian.”
SONG: “Migration Roads”. (available as .ogg here)
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SOURCE: Based on LiveScience, 3 May 2024, “1st Americans came over in 4 different waves from Siberia,… Read the rest “SONG: Migration Roads”
This is a photo taken in 2015 by Wikimedia Commons user Jebulon, of a helmet made for a Mycenaean warrior between 3.300 and 3,400 years ago. It’s a display at the National Archaeological… Read the rest “Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens, Greece.”
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