Chicken and rice go together – all the way to the origins of domestic fowl in grain fields.
Science News discusses two new studies that place the origins of domestic chickens in one specific place – Southeast Asia – and much more recently […]
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Reading the DNA from Pompeii
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 […]
Inca sacrifices were given ayahuasca in their final hours.
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 […]
A 3,000-year-old skull surgery in Alabama
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 […]
The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.
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 […]
Venus of Willendorf actually not of Willdendorf – she’s Italian!
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 […]
Prehistoric pigment points to archaic brain trust.
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 […]
The first hybrid humans ever bred was a kunga.
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 […]
Rare “exquisitely carved” Roman-era figure found along British railway route.
The Guardian shares archaeological treasure – the discovery of a 2,000-year-old wooden statue unearthed in the massive dig along the 150-mile HS2 rail project: The […]
Science Art: Magdalenian engraving of bison
This is a drawing of a drawing, a likeness of a bison engraved on cave floor at Niaux. The likeness is part of the Wellcome […]
A robot will be rebuilding Pompeii from fragments
Scientific American reports on a project using autonomous robots to reassemble the smallest fragments of the ruins of Pompeii: Their project—dubbed RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: […]
Footprints prove people were walking around America more than 20,000 years ago.
Science presents hard evidence that humans really were in North America at the time of the last Ice Age, along with giant sloths and glyptodonts: […]
SONG: I Chant
SONG: “I Chant” [Download] . ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Smithsonian, 23 Feb 2021, “Archaeologists in Egypt Discover Mummy With Gold Tongue,” as used in the post […]
Strange, ancient Scottish balls.
LiveScience (via ScienceAlert) is puzzling over two polished stone spheres found in a Neolithic site on the isle of Sanday in the Orkneys. The stones […]
Mummified with a golden tongue, in order to speak sweetly in death.
Smithsonian Magazine reveal the probable history of a mummy found in the Egyptian temple of Taposiris Magna who was preserved with a tongue-shaped amulet made […]